Overview of my experience of MPI104

I found the course interesting because my internet technology knowledge used to be reasonably good but the technology has changed and the way people use the internet is changing as well. I saw this as a first step to rebuilding my knowledge and professional practice. For me the best part of the course was getting together a reasonable blog, as well as starting flickr and delicious accounts. I can see how the blog in particular can be a useful platform for an animator and I notice that many animators have blogs for promotion and as information and general communication sites. Delicious is proving useful and I am using it for my assignments as well as other bits and pieces I come across. Flickr is great as I needed to get my photos together for display and this has been a good start. I will continue to develop flickr and step by step upload more artwork and photos. As well as the refresher on html, I found my own investigations into css and html5 something that I will use and experiment with in the near future. It was useful to delve into rss feeds as a means to enhance websites and this is knowledge I will use in the future. Iweb was a revelation in how flexible and straightforward it is to use. I would still prefer dreamweaver, obviously it can do more, but particularly because iweb recompressed the images I prepared, degrading them a little and made a couple of them considerably larger. I like how easy it is to set up a podcast with iweb. I would definitely recommend iweb to others without much internet skill. I particularly liked the work around of moving the domain file to make it more flexible. Using fetch after not using it for ten years was liking meeting an old friend (or pet really I guess). Technorati, seems to be a useful site for building a successful blog. (For some reason technorati is rejecting my blog at present, not regarding my feed information as valid, I spent a day trying to sort it out.) I joined technorati's blog critics and may come back to it in the future at some stage. The state of the blogosphere reports are interesting as well.
The course has been of great assistance in rebuilding my familiarity with the way the internet is operating. Looking forward to going more into this subject next semester.