Monday, September 22, 2008

Bratz Girls



Thats the Bratz club Girls. New wintwertime collection in which adding a new Bratz girl.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Writing for the Web

Writing for the Web

Writing new material for the web is one of the important for developing a website. Writing for web is totally different from the writing that we all are already done for our courses like on handouts and other instructional material. Reading on web is tend to scan the text online and reading text while offline. When we read over the web we do not read the blocks of text from start to the finish. Instead, they can scan a relevant material on the site and then print the pages which contains a relevant material which the seeker is finding. Once we apply the method and style for the web document that accommodate this type of reading.

Writing Style

The writing style for the web document is totally different from the style of writing that we used in the documents. The main task in the web writing style is to write in the language and style of the reader to read it. You can not write your message so deeply that the web reader scanning your pages either skip it or don’t bother to find it. In writing, Summarization is the main approach for the web reader to find you information. You have to write main points of your documents in the first half or paragraph of the writing. So, the reader when scan your document can not miss the main points of the page. Mostly, the readers scan the relevant material from the pafe rather than reading the whole page of document word to word.

Be Succinct

Reading from the computer screen is slower than the reading from the paper. It’s a human fact that they feel unpleasant when they reading text online than the reading from the paper. In short, peoples don’t want to read a lot of text on the computer screen because read on the computer screen is difficult than the reading from the paper. To solve a problem we should have to write 50% less text that we would have used in the hardcopy. It’s not a matter of reading speed but also a matter of feeling good when you are reading anything. Moreover, we also know that the peoples don’t like to scroll down the mouse that’s the another one more reason to keep pages short.

The screen readability problem will be solved in the future, since high resolution screens have been invented and it has the high resolution of 300dpi. It also found that these high resolution screens have good readability as compare to the paper.

Scannability

As we know that reading on the computer screen is painful than reading on the paper because of the online experience seems to be feeling impatience sometimes. That’s why, the users are not read blocks full of text over the computer screen. Instead, users scan the text and pick out the text which he like to be reading and skipping over those blocks of text that they care less. The text that they pick out it may be keywords, sentences, paragraphs according to the interest of the user.
One of the fact of the Web is Skimming instead of reading. It has been confirmed by the more of the usability of the studies. Web writers also acknowledge this fact and write something important for the scannability.

a) Structure articles with two or three levels of headlines.
b) Use easy and meaningful headlines.
c) Use bold and underline text for the important words so that user’s eye catch it easily. Colored text can also be used for the important words.

Hypertext Structure

Making text material short. Don’t need to search deeply and write it. Use the hypertext links to arrange the information up into the multiple nodes. Long and detailed information can be available on the secondary pages and which is available through the links for those readers who wants the detailed summary of the document which they can searching.
Hypertext should not be used for the long blocks of text of story into multiple pages. Its very difficult to download all the text and it creates problem in the printing also. While download all the blocks of text it decreases the reading accuracy. Proper hypertext structure is not a single flow. Instead of making blocks of text, split the information in different paragraphs so that each paragraph focus on a certain topic. There is some guidelines which help the reader to search that what he wants to search and download the information. Each hypertext page contains a short conclusion, the reader finds the material what he wants without reading the page word by word.

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Features of Blogspot

Blog is a website, created and maintained by people, with the entries of comments, descriptions of events, photos, videos or other material such as graphics. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a Blog. Information in blog is usually archived in date order, which provides an easy way to find blog entries posted on a particular date

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a link log, a site comprising a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs which comprising with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog.
Micro-Blogging is another important type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

Features of Blogspot

Some of the most important features of blogspot are mentioned below:-

A blog is a personal diary
A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a only place to collect and share things that you find interesting just like a personal diary— whether it's your political comment, or links to web sites you want to remember, or your day to day activity. Blog provides a way to store and share information about certain experience or event which can be access over internet anywhere.
Many people use a blog just to organize their own thoughts, where as others organize it for command influential, worldwide audiences of thousands.


A Corporate Blog
As in most cases a blog can be crceated for private purposes or it can be for business purposes. Blogs are used to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations purposes are called corporate blogs.

Blog Customization
Whether you are starting your blog or just think it's time to give your existing blog a facelift. Blogger's user-friendly tools are help you in customizing a design of a page to a great-looking page.

Templates — Blog templates will get you started with an attractive site right away without you having to learn any HTML, though most of the websites also allows you to edit your blog's HTML code whenever you want.

Custom colors and fonts — When you are ready to take the next step in customizing of your blog, you can further customize our templates to create a design that perfectly reflects you and your blog.

Drag-and-drop page elements — Blogging websites have a features like simple drag-and-drop system which lets you easily decide exactly where your posts, profiles, archives and other parts of your blog should live on the page.


A collection of links
You can maintain a collection of all important links to other websites or blog with some related information. This gives a better exposure and sharing of each others websites.


A collaborative space
Blogging is about more than just putting your thoughts on the web. It is about connecting with the others and hearing from anyone who reads the work and cares to respond. You can control who can read and write to your blogs. By the blogging, the entire world see what you have to say!

Comments - you can let anyone, anywhere, offer feedback on your posts. You can choose whether you want to allow comments on a post-by-post basis, and you can delete any comments you don't like.

Access Controls - you can decide who can read and who can write to your blog. You can use a group blog, an excellent communication tool for small teams, families and other groups. Or you can create a single blog, it’s an private online space for collecting news, links, and ideas.
Profiles you can find people and blogs that share your interests. Your Profiles, where you can list your blogs, your interests, and more, lets people find you.

A political soapbox & A breaking-news outlet
Since 2002, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking, spinning news and stories.

The great impact of certain political stories gave greater credibility to blogs as a medium of new. Though often seen as partisan gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in bringing key information to public light with media having to follow their lead. More often, news blogs tend to react to material already published by the mainstream media. By the increasing the number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of depth analysis.
Lately, the role of blogs became in the fields of political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging was established by politicians and political candidates to express opinions on war and other issues as a news source.


Photo Sharing
Sometimes you just want to share a photo. You can also upload photos in the Blog. It’s very simple clicks to upload a photo from your computer to the blog. If the photo which you like to put on your blog is already on the web then you can just use the URLs to your photo to upload into the blog. You can also send camera phone photos straight to your blog.
Some blogging websites lets you send photos and text straight to your blog while you are on the go. It is easily to possible to claim your mobile blog or switch your posts to another blog.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

DEFINE WEB BLOG

Definition

A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.


Information

A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or web logs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.


Blogging consequences

The emergence of blogging has brought a range of legal liabilities and other often unforeseen consequences. One area of concern is the issue of bloggers releasing proprietary or confidential information. Another area of concern is blogging and defamation. A third area of concern is employees who write about aspects of their place of employment or their personal lives, and then face loss of employment or other adverse consequences. A number of examples of blogging and its sometimes negative or unforeseen consequences are cited here.


Types of blog

There are various types of blogs, and each differs in the way content is delivered or written.
By media type
A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs.
An Artlog is a form of art sharing and publishing in the format of a blog, but differentiated by the predominant use of and focus on Art work rather than text.
A rare type of blog hosted on the Gopher Protocol is known as a Phlog
By device
Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device like a mobile phone or PDA is called a moblog.

Rebecca Blood’s Weblogs: a history and perspective categorises blogs into ‘filter’ and ‘short-form journal’ genres. In addition, new tools have created a new type of blog; ‘distributed conversation’.
Filter blog
A filter blog is constructed around commentary of selected hyperlinks. On a particular topic the editor may draw attention to contrasting articles on other websites, and build these into a single narrative or discussion.
Short-form journal blog
A stream-of-consciousness record of thoughts, observations and events. The journal oeuvre is characterised by personal expression.
Distributed conversation (‘red-flag’) blog
publishing software has enabled new forms of blog to evolve.
Blog publishing software has introduced tools that have enabled new forms of blog to evolve. In particular the ability to add a response to a blog entry (comment) and automate the creation of links between different blogs (reciprocal linking) have had a marked impact on the nature of the blogosphere. These features have made space for ‘the reader’s voice’.
A distributed conversation (potentially coined by Mena and Ben Trott of MoveableType blog publishing software fame) uses an original blog entry as the starting point for an ongoing series of posts, either as comments or reciprocal links. As responses are received, they are listed underneath the blog, in order of posting. The original author is then encouraged to clarify, defend, or alter their original post―particularly where the blog relates to a technical subject.
For an example of a red-flag blog see Mike Davidson’s “March to your own standard” (challenging the web standards approach to web design).




Features

Title, the main title, or headline, of the post.
Body, main content of the post.
Permalink, the URL of the full, individual article.
Post Date, date and time the post was published.
A blog entry optionally includes the following:
Comments -
Main article: Feedback comment system
Comments are a way to provide discussion on blog entries. Readers can leave a comment on a post, which can correct errors or contain their opinion on the post or the post's subject. Services like coComment aim to ease discussion through comments, by allowing tracking of them.
Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry