Week 7- Presentations begin!

This is the first week back to uni after the mid-session break and the presentations begin!

WARNING: Make sure your presentation is actually recording in Garageband before you start! That is totally something that I would do- do my speech without recording it! I'm a bit worried about that now...

Man.. setting up is taking forever!! Uni computers have issues... lots of issues. Even the good ones. I am getting sleepy.. very sleepy..

Anyway, the first presentation today is by Paul. His topic is: Something Awful forums

Summary:
www.somethingawful.com is a comedy website that basically bags out everything and anything. You have to pay US$9.95 upfront to become a member and this is the only fee unless you get banned and want to rejoin or if you want to buy a customised avatar for yourself or someone else. The fee keeps undesirable people out of the forums.

There are other options that you can pay for such as:
-Avatars
-unlimited access, forums
-archives
-free of ads
-change user name
-banner - non-profit, selling something

I found it interesting that people's post count decrease if they post in the FYAD forum. It was also good that Paul explained some of the terminology used on the website. I liked how internet humour is described as humour that wouldn't exist without the internet. Photoshop Friday sounded like an interesting thread too.

This week after Paul's presentation, we looked at creating a webpage in flash. I hadn't tried making one in flash before because we learnt how to use Dreamweaver in a previous subject. Flash is so much easier though and it seems more reliable. You can basically make anything a button and layers make the whole thing so much easier! I will definitely be using what I learnt in future projects, possibly even my own website for my online portfolio.

Oh and just so I remember later, after my presentation do this:
Garageband -> Save -> Share -> Export to Disk