Thursday 3rd September

Learned quite a bit today, although i'm not saying we don't learn alot everyday ..... i'm just going to stop there I think.

PC Passport was the first lesson of the day and what we did was research the following:

• Internet


• Modem


• Dial up connection


• ISDN - Intergrated Services Digital Network


• ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (Getting good at this)


• Broadband


• ISP - Internet Service Provider


• Web Browser


• URL - Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator


• Bandwidth


• Firewall


• Antivirus Software


• Cookies (not the lovely sweet kind)


• Intranet


• www - World Wide Web


• FTP - File Transfer Protocol
  

Then after lunch we had Web Design Fundamentals, where we discussed about different websites currently on the web. Then we split ourselves into groups and chose a website that we frequently used and come up with 5 advantages and disadvantages. Paul and I chose youtube.com and these are the results:

Good

1. Like the layout, very easy to find vids.


2. Simple and easy to use
   
3. Gets people to share and experiment


4. Good to use when you're bored


5. Achmed the dead terrorist
   

Bad

1. Takes ages to load vids


2. Pictures aren't always clear


3. General colour scheme is a bit dull


4. You get the odd load of rubbish


5. (Please write your answers on a postcard if you can think of a 5th)
   

After that we learned how to do our webpages, which I found really interesting, and was quite impressed on how letters and numbers can make up a brightly colur webpage.