This lesson!

Thiss lesson i have posted my 2 evaluations and am now editing my webpage on wix. I am now inserting videos from youtube and also editing my homepage atm it looks like this with the youtube video inserted.

Protopage Evaluation

Protopage is an online media presentation tool  which allows the producer to make an online media presentation.

Protopage has a tool which allows you to add widgets onto the page the widgets box looks like this. You can insert such things like podcasts, videos, maps,comment box etc. The widgets can be accessed on the top right of the webpage.

The Widget box looks like this and allows many extra widgets to be put onto the protopage and this is a certain POSITIVE for the site. The negatives about using this presentation tool is that it is not versitile in terms of choosing a template which would have a proffestional edge and finish to it. Although it allows the user to add many widgets which allow the page to entertain the graphic backgrounds are not very versitle. Protopage can be accesed at any location if their is interent and it is easy to use.

Wix!

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    Versatility – what media does it allow me to use (text, images, video)?Wixs is an extremely versitile as it offers a wide wange of of resources to use and it allows you to create each and every part of your template with ease. It allows you to insert things on to the template page such as text, images, links on writing, videos, clipart. It allows you to undo and redo thigns m,aking it easier to dispose and put things on to your page.

       A pro about its versitility is the fact that it is easy to edit the page  because it is loaded with a a lot  of graphics which will take a while to load. Which means the downloading speed for wix is the concern because it uses flash player to play animations etc.

Wix offers a lot of graphic features which  is a pro. Itprovides a high quality finish which makes the page look proffessional in terms of asthetics. Although it takes a while to master the editing options which wix provides it is a useful and worthwhile online media presentation tool.Ease of use location

·     how friendly is the user interface for the designers (you)?How easy is it to add components to my presentation? How friendly is the user interface for the user, can visitors find what they need on your presentation?
      As i have mentioned Wix offers a lot of graphic features which is a pro. It provides a high quality finish which makes the page look proffessional in terms of asthetics. Although it takes a while to master the editing options which wix provides it is a useful and worthwhile online media presentation tool. It is easy for the user to use and also easy for the vistor to find components in the template that i have chosen.

·         Collaboration – how well does the online tool allow me to work with my partner? Can we both work on the presentation at the same time?
As i am working by myself and not with other people Wix is very easy to use in terms of the location which i am at when making the webpage because i can edit the page save it and be able to access it anywhere where there is interenet like at home and at school. The page is saved as it is online and is easyliy accessed by me anywhere.

Topics I had chose to do

I don't think i have mentioned the topics i have and  nearly finished researching:

•  Handheld Media Devices
• Copyright and Piracy
• Wireless Broadband
• Secondary storage = Blu ray disks and flash drive

I have researched 3 of the topics and have 1 more to do which wireless broadband, I realized that i had gotten to much information and therefore have to cut it to make the website not drowned in pages of words but i have cut the information hopefully it still includes the essentials which are meant to be on each page.

My Progress Making my Page

For the past week i have been doing my research on the topics which i have been doing which are :

• Handheld Media Devices
• Software liscence types
• Secondary storage types
• Wireless Broadband

At the moment i am just finishing the research for handheld media devices which are on a seperate word document which i will posting after this post. My final designfor the website is final and i have chosn a easy and usefull navigation template which i have a changed a little bit to fit my likings.

Progress/ Notes on Work

Today we have received an extension in our assessment tasks now it is due on Tuesday evening which allow me to insert more details on the webpage and also more animations.
We were given instructions on what we have to have done by now and what we have to do for the assignments. I had taken notes and placed them into a word document saved in my USB. the information was as follows:
What to write about each topic
- What is it?
- What do we use it for?
- How is it a part of our multimedia world?
- Are there different types? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each type?
- A simple explanation of how it works
- Indication of the cost (If there is a cost or a device is being researched)
- Future directions, where is it going and what is the new technology in this area?

Overall Presentation
Information must be:

•  easy to read 
•  be easy to find
•  organised in a logical format

Suggestions for formating information inclue:
- Question answer format,
- Headings on each sub-topic
- Paragraphs
- Dot points

What I must be up to at this point
- Must be researching and nearly finishing research component
-Picked a website to use for my assessment
- Blogging about decisions  and work and research websites
- Must have evaluated at least two websites

Jimdo!

Jimdo is another online media presentation device which is quite useful and easy to use

.• Versatility –  This multimedia presentation device allows you to add in element on to the pages such as: html links, tables, videos from youtube, photo's etc.

• Ease of use – This website is easy to use as it is not complex to make the elements. The buttons are clearly shown making it easy for the designer to selct and find what they want to use. Adding components to the page is easy as i have mentioned because it provides the tools on the add element button which is shon on the bottom left of this image from jimdo.Visitors can easily find what they want to use on this becasue their  is a navigational option on the left hand side which can easily be adjasted to be put anywher in the page. The navigation allows the visitors to find the exact information they want by clicking onto the right link.

It is also at the same time not easy as all the available good tools are not available for the user unless they are on the jimdopro or jimdobusiness class and these have to be puchased to use the other available tools on jimdo as they are more useful and incorporate more tools.

• Collaboration – I don't have a parthner on this but i don't think that it easy to  use it to work on  with more than 2 people because the other  partner might rewrite work one person has done and if using it you have to use links to share the other page that the other person has done.

Handheld Computing

1. What are MID and UMPC devices? How do they differ. List atleast three examples of both types of devices & include images.

MID:  Mobile Interenet Device

Examples include:

Netbook Navigator Nav9

Sony Vaio

Archos 9

What is different to MID

• Is meant mainly for business users
• Heavy OS (operating system) e.g. windows 7
• Made for office use with applicatins like Microsoft Excel and Microsof Word

UMPC: Ultra Mobile Portable Computer
Examples include:

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Acer Aspire One

                Neofonie WePad

What is different to MID

• Device for Lifestyle of Consumer Class
• Runs on lightweight operating system which have a quick start up. eg Linux
• Made for media playback and web surfing.

2. What are the differences between a Notebook handheld computing device and a Netbook handheld computing device?

• Screen size: Netbooks usually have screen sizes of 7" ,9" and 10" monitor screens. While Notebooks have sizes of 12.1" , 13.1" , 13.3", 14.1", 15.4" , 17" etc in monitor screens.
• Size: The netbooks are smaller than the Notebooks.
• Storage: Notebook more storage than netbook  80GB-320GB of storage. Netbook solid state hard drive has 4GB-80GB on its of storage.
• Processors: Notebook has a Dual Core Processor , windows XP and Windows Vista. It has a large hardrive. Netbooks have the  Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor.
• Notebooks have DVD drives but not netbooks.

Bits and Bytes

1. What is a Digit?

Either a zero and a one

2. “normal” counting numbers used in everyday life a based on what sequence of numbers? 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

3. Where does the word bit originate from?
The word bit originates from

4. Binary numbers don’t use base 10.
What base do they use?
 2
5.What digits are available in base 2?
 0 and 1

6.Write the following numbers in binary (base 2)

21= 10101

24=11000

30=11110

7. What is a byte?
A byte is made out of eight bits


8. How many bytes in a kilo, mega, giga and tera bytes.

100bytes=1 kilobyte

1000 kilobytes =1 megabyte

1000 mega bytes = 1 gigabyte

1000 gigabytes = 1 terabyte


9. Complete the following conversions;

1000 Mb = 1Gb

500 Gb =  500 000Mb

5000 Kb =5Mb