Hello reader!

Managed to make it to last weeks lecture, and enjoyed it aswell. We analysed several websites, some were very good with lots of interactivity, nicely contrasting colours and in general very well built. Other sites that were viewed were shocking. One religeous site that was viewed was not only the brightest thing ive ever seen, including the sun, but was also a bit scary. Makes me wonder if Charles Manson has access to web building facilities in his current residings. Also another site viewed was full of information, but was setout in such a way that it was all very hard to take in; dull contrast, bad navigation system, and very small writing densely packed together. Overall it made for a very boring web experience.

Thursdays tutorial was enjoyable aswell. This weeks lesson involved shape tweening in Flash. The tutorial on Blackboard was fairly straight forward, and afterwards started to develop little experimental animations. Managed to aquire a copy of Flash, so as to develop my skills even further. A good tutorial site that was refered to me was a Flash tutorial module at http://http://www.w3schools.com/flash/default.asp. The w3 schools site has come in very useful in the past, and is a very reliable source of information.

Looking back at the lecture, i have learnt that a website can be full of information. But if the information is represented in a dull or unattractive way, it actually deters the user from the site, and interest is lost quite quickly. Colour schemes play a major part in this. A website with nicely contrasting colours will make web content more visible and defined, and overall a much better experience for the viewer, which i think is what its all about.

Week 2 - Not much to say

Hello again!

Missed last weeks IAD lecture so i havent got anything to say about it. But im sure it was very educational and exciting.

In regards to my other lectures im starting to learn alot about how computers operate, in Computer Systems & Network Tech. I already had a basic knowledge of how things in a computer worked, so im building on what i know already, and am finding the lectures interesting.

Problem Solving for Computing is a bit of a joke though. Not with the lecture contents but the fact that they have crammed so many students into the one class. Steve is trying his best to sort something out, so he cant really be blamed. The sooner something is sorted the better, because i didnt see myself spending the first year of Uni sat on someones lap.

Thank you for your time!

Week 1 - The Beginning

Hello, before this post I was a blog virgin. So excuse me if I end up babbling about random stuff!

Ive been in bed since Monday feeling very ill, fragile, and having a supposed burst eardrum (diagnosed by my mate) which I received from having a "heated debate", with a random person in Cardiff. Never mind though its nothing a large Tandoori Hot Domino's pizza, a bottle of Fanta, a box of potato wedges, a box of 7 chicken strippers and every episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Futurama couldn't sort out.

My mate, Scott Stafford, has also setup a blog with the amusing title of Blog On The Bog. I'm sure if the content lives up to its title it`ll be full of.................useful information. Check it out at http://roidheaduk.blogspot.com/