Week 9

We're already up to week 9 and that means that my presentation is due next week. I have an idea of how I want to present my topic but it's going to take a fair bit of work. Because I'm doing my presentation on Windows Live Messenger, I can't simply go onto the internet and show everyone from there. So, I have to use a lot of screenshots so people have something to look at while I am talking. I've got the screenshots that I want to use, it's just putting it together. I think I'm going to try and do a flash presentation but I'll see what happens.

It's time for Timmy's presentation. He is talking about myspace and how bands use it as opposed to individuals.

Myspace was created as a social network service. However, it is now also used as a personal network and Tim is covering this from a musician's perspective. He has a space for his own music at myspace.com/mungoraye and also one for his band at myspace.com/justlikejosiah. Myspace can be used to post gig dates and have a photo gallery. It's basically a way to get your work out there and is really good for people in the music industry or wanting to break into it. There were issues regarding ownership of material but now the conditions have changed and bands can retain all ownership rights when they upload any pics, music, videos etc. It was good presentation, very concise.

The second presentation was by Luke. He was talking about using the internet in terms of the fear gaming clan. He clarified that a clan is a group of people who play online games. Fear is the game the involves powerful weapons and fighting the opposition. People from teams and groups. Teamspeak is a website that is basically a server and chatroom that allows players to talk to each other with the use of microphones. Luke's clan called [MOB] has a website and people can join their clan and get help to become a better player. There's another website called Joomla where members can post a notice, gaming time and email to members. At first I was really confused what Luke was talking about but as he went on I got a gist of what it was.

We continued on with our flash websites today and learnt how to make each individual page and how to rename buttons and frames to make coding easier. With the buttons, there are so many possibilities when you go in and edit them. They can rotate, change colour or size when you hover over them or after you click them. It's quite open to your imagination. I had never used behaviours before, only actions so that was quite interesting and I think it is actually an easier way to attach scripts to various components.