Mac Problem Solved!

If anyone out there has a brand new Mac OS X 10.5.2 and you live on campus you will probably have realised the drama involved in connecting it to the internet, it just doesn't happen! Well i have a solution <yaaaay> well technically I recieved this solution off the IT forum, but its a solution all the same :P

Firstly you must download the latest version of Authoxy

1. Go to the Apple menu, select System Prefs, and click the Authoxy icon
2. Make sure the Username is your CSU username. Re-enter your CSU password (even if you think it should have to correct one in there).
3. Make sure "Use this proxy server" is selected and the Address of the server is "proxy.csu.edu.au" and the port is 8080.
4. Click the top button labelled "Start Authoxy". If it says "Stop Authoxy" click it once so it says "Start Authoxy", and then click it again.

Worked for me :D thankyou wise forum people!

Dancing walrus!!

This is craaazy! Go you dancing walrus! :)

Templates

Ahhh changing your blogger is surprisingly easy. You select customize and then within that section you can change the templates, aka. the base of your page - the theme/background/presentation of your blogspot. Their are quite a few template options already created, however you can alter them to customize your page. You can change the font colours, the layout of the page, the font size, you can add different features such as lists, video's etc. You can only change the aspects featured in the templates, eg. select out of the fonts nominated, however if you are confident one can alter the html coding within the page to change more elements. 

In my blog I changed quite a bit. The fonts for starters - the colours i thought could have been improved, so i changed the main text, the heading, the dates, pretty much all of the originals used in the template. i then went on to alter the font type to 'courier' and then the overall font size for easier accessibility. I then changed the page layout around a bit, adding various other features such as a to do-list and moving the linked sites to the lower section of the side palette.

CSS

Onto CSS this week, which is a completely new concept to me <I'm so computer illiterate! gah!> its a good concept in that you keep all the presentation aspects together, and the html coding together. You can change the layers, fonts, colours and any aspect of the presentation without having to alter the html coding thereby improving accessibility. 

When viewing a page Firefox with "no style" it visually shows you the dramatic difference of not having any presentation aspects in a page - it highlights the lack of CSS - very interesting activity! 

Tag/Bookmarking Web Pages

There are quite a few social bookmarking websites which similarly to del.icio.us use tag links to bookmark web pages. Some examples I found include:

• citeUlike
• Ma.gnolia
• Simpy
• furl

Random!

Random/hilarious clips from TV series Arrested Development

PLOT SUMMARY: The Bluth family adopted a Korean child who doesn't speak any English. Upon arrival he says "annyong" to them, and so they assumed that it was his name. HOWEVER in reality it actually means "hello" in Korean, so everytime they say his 'name' annyong he responds with "annyong" ! they get so cranky, ahh funny stuff!!

Week 5: del.icio.us

This week we are learning all about del.icio.us accounts, its all very confusing at the moment, but it is making more sense as I investigate it more. It seems like an excellent resource for bookmarking webpages - especially useful when your not on the same computer all the time. This is a link to my del.icio.us account.