Posting #1

I found the readings for this section interesting, especially the article on website plagiarism. I was actually quite surprised by that particular article. I agree that the wholesale copying of the content of someone else’s site is wrong, and by this I mean all of the visible elements and content of a website – the text, the images, the links. The matter of the actual code used to create a site, that’s a lot trickier for me. I see HTML, XHTML, and CSS as building blocks, like bricks or concrete blocks or even Legos. For some things there are only a limited number of ways you can write the code in order to achieve the results you want. Since this is the case, two people can sit down and write very similar code. When you come across a website that does something interesting, and you work with HTML, I think it’s only natural to look at the source code and perhaps play with it a bit to see how it all works. By exploring other people’s code you learn things you might not otherwise learn and that leads to innovation. Up until now I knew just enough about HTML to be able to look at the source code on broken pages to find links, but I haven’t really known enough about HTML to be able to look at the page source and really understand what I’m looking at. I think encrypting your HTML would be a very bad idea. Without the sharing of code I don’t the think the internet would be the place it is today.

Here’s my final project. Hopefully now I’ll stop messing with the code, at least for a little while.
http://www.tangled-threads.net/index.html

I’ve been working on an index page for my exercises, but since I’ve not gotten it done, here’s a selection of some of mine:

http://www.tangled-threads.net/lis753/exercise09.html
http://www.tangled-threads.net/lis753/exercise08.html
http://www.tangled-threads.net/lis753/exercise06.html
http://www.tangled-threads.net/lis753/shades.html

I find myself wanting to go back and tweak some of them to look more like I wanted but wasn’t able to do at that point. They’re all in the same folder so you can always change the numbers to check out other ones.

Here is my review of Meebo. I’d never heard of it before, so i decided to see what it was. I’m not sure if I like it or not.

http://www.tangled-threads.net/lis753/review.html

Let’s see …. my introduction to the internet was around the end of 1990. A friend of mine introduced me to this wonderful shiny thing called IRC. I thought it was the coolest thing ever and spent way, way too many hours in a computer lab somewhere on campus talking to people. I know I poked around a little bit with lynx and gopher and usenet as well.

Hi there, I’m Kimesa. This is my fifth semester at Dominican and I’m hoping to be finished by the end of the year at the latest. My main interest is in archival work. It’s been a long time since I poked around with making web pages, and I know things have changed. This should be interesting.