Source Log

Music

• Era Vulgaris by Queens Of The Stone Age, a free track, downloaded from www.thefade.net
• Desert Flowers by Simon Thomson, original work
• Album Preview of Era Vulgaris hosted free on www.qotsa.com
  

Videos

• Charity by the Remainders, Video clip from http://www.myspace.com/remaindersthe
  

Pictures

• Site Background from www.capricornexpedition.com
• Article Picture from www.geocities.com
• Photo Gallery: Che: www.lastfm.pl, Fu Manchu: www.wma.com, Masters of Reality: www.3voor12vpro.nl, Mark Lanegan: www.onewhiskey.com, Old Masters Of Reality: www.sing365.com, Nebula: www.2ksports.com, Queens Of The Stone Age In The Desert: www.yottamusic.com, Queens Of The Stone Age In The Woods: www.monliazariston.com, Queens Of The Stone Age: www.punknews.org, Unida: www.postmandan75.tripod.com
  

7/8. A site map

My site map is also my NavBar which I found better suited the needs of my site as an extra site map would just clutter it unnecessarily.

The ul navbar tag had to be placed in my sidebar section of my html template as it acts as its own side bar. Its padding is to the left so it doesn't clutter the main sidebar.

Its position is fixed so it floats with the pages text. From it, my assignment log and source log can be accessed as well as my 'labels' (events). It has a home function which takes the user back to the main page. It also has a link to my photo gallery on Liskov.

The links for the navbar can be placed anywhere in the body of the html template but the corresponding positioning and tag has to be in the sidebar section of the template.

This way as most of my main material is on my main page, the navbar can be my site map to things which are not on the main page.

6. One edited video

My video is that of a band that I'm friends with and I have their permission to use the video.

It has a title and transitions. As it was already being hosted on YouTube, I used object embed to place it in html page element in my sidebar. Its size was an issue as it was to big for the side bar so I proportioned its html width and hight so it would fit.

5. Music Downloads

Instead of an image map I have music download links where the music comes from a absolute URL from www.fileden.com where the music has been uploaded and can be downloaded for listening by a user.

These absolute URLs are links that have been placed as html in a sidebar hmtl page element.

One song is my own which I created and mixed myself, the other is a Queens of the Stone Age song which was distributed by them freely onto the internet.

I also have a Album preview of Queens of The Stone Age's new album which is being hosted freely on their website.

Using an iframe flash player I have inserted the html for this player into a html page element on my sidebar. iframe allows the flash player to play automatically

4. A gallery of photographs

I collected pictures of different Desert Rock bands from the internet and created a gallerie album with them. The file was then zipped using mac's archive function and then placed in a directory on my desktop. Then using mac's terminal function I sent the directory to Liskov for public viewing.

The album's address on Liskov was then used as a absolute URL which was placed on my site map.

3. A form

My form is a general questionnaire about what users think of the site, there location and what Desert Rock bands they like.

It uses a

• two text field inputs for the users names.
• two drop down boxes allowing users to tell me what country they are from and what their favorite Desert Rock band is.
• A set of 5 radio buttons allowing the user to rate the site's quality on a scale of 1-5.
• A set of check boxes is also available to for users to check using positive descriptive words to describe the site.
• There is a text area input called other that is left blank for users to place their own favorite desert rock band if it is not available in the drop down box.
• There is a mailto form action which is activated by the input value' send' which prepares an email of the data collected to be sent to my email.
• A reset input value is also in place for the user to clear unwanted data.

The form was then placed as a html page element on my sidebar.

2. A CSS for the web site

My site's main css I used a image with 4 rules which were placed in the body of the site's html editor.

• It was a background image from another URL
• 'background-repeat: no-repeat;' So that it was the one image instead of tiles.
  
• It had a positioning of 50% 20% so that it was centered.
  
• And that its attachment was fixed so it remained stationary
  

It was added to give the site some style, I changed the site texts colours in the variable definitions section of the html editor. I changed the written text to black (#000000) so it could be visible and changed the link text colours to a dark red (#990000) to differentiate.

1. A Mission Statement, and goals for the web site

I used a table element with a css border rule and span style text to create a table informing the site viewers of what my goals are in a neat and precise way.

The table also reflects what I plan to do with the website and to what audience this is directed at. This table was added to a html page element on the site's sidebar layout editor.

A short mission statement is added to the header underneath the title.

Journal 7

Objectives

• Display some javascript on my page

Outcomes

• Using a 'for loop' that would run a set on instructions multiple times. The 'for loop' allows this to be predetermined.
• The loop starts with i=0. The loop will continue to run as long as i is equal to 5. i will increase by 1 each time the loop runs. It was set to run to for 5 times.
• Creating a script function with this data in bloggers hmtl template allows for a single 'input' type button to be created that corresponds with the loop and can be posted along with an explanation in a single post.
  

Maths

Explanation:

This for loop starts with i=0.

As long as i is less than, or equal to 5, the loop will continue to run.

i will increase by 1 each time the loop runs.

Journal 6

Objects:

• Produce a Quicktime video
  
• Inline the video

Outcomes

• Selected a video and added effects and transitions to it using Imovie, then compressed it into a web based Quicktime video using Imovie's share function.
  
• Using mac's terminal function, the compressed video could be sent to a directory at Liskov where it would have a location from where it could be viewed by the public.
  
• Created a video code using Pageotx and inserted the video's absolute URL at Liskov, then I could insert the html into my blog allowing for the hosting of the video on my blog as well as on Liskov. The URL has to be absolute so it can be accessed by anyone on the net, a relative URL woould mean hey would have to go to Liskov first.
  

Movie