So, I was up relatively late last night, trying to get my website together for my other class. I guess I forgot all of the nuances that go into making a website and how temperamental it can be. As requested by the instructor of this class, we are to use Google Pages to create our website, which seems easy enough, right? Hah, what kept stumping me was that a web page of my website kept coming back as the homepage. I have no idea how this happened, and tried to fool around with the settings, but I cannot find any option that would fix it. Therefore, I just erased the whole website that I initially had, and decided to start from the beginning.
Although I would consider myself “technologically brave,” RSS feeds kind of frighten me. I mean, thankfully there are aggregators, but as I was reading the assigned chapters in Blogging and RSS: A Librarian’s Guide, by Michael Sauers, I began to get confused about XML, the language in which the feeds are written, with HTML tagging. After looking at the author’s description of each and every tag on a line-by-line basis, it did start to make eventual sense. I noticed that some of the tags that appear in XML do not appear when using HTML.
I guess it all depends upon the day; sometimes, my mind is not capable of deciphering codes, while others it is very astute in doing so. I remember when I was making my first HTML website for L401, and the biggest frustration I had was making sure that the image tag followed the coding. Honestly, I recall that the code was correct, but for some reason the image would not show up on my page. Maybe humans are smarter and shrewder than computers when it comes to editing codes; however, the frustration never seems to leave when one knows that they are right!
5 comments:
I am glad your project finally came together for you. It sounds to me like you won a hard-fought battle with your computer.(I have to admit that my mind was spinning just reading about your ordeal)
I've not battled the RSS yet. However, I might soon. I'm thinking about doing that out of self defense. Since we're supposed to comment on others blogs, it seems that looking into a tool that would let me know who has posted would make sense. And yet, I've not done it yet. I will at some point I think...
I wonder what this says about technology in general. Something, surely.
XML is a little more exacting than HTML. Hang in there, you'll get it. Like Keith, I need to set it ups so that I can see when everyone posts. Right now I just kind of click on a couple of blogs and if someone has a new posting, I make a comment. I'd like to keep up more. I think I'll give bloglines a try.
I am facing similar frustration developing web material for S532. We are working a lot with (X)HTML, as the professor and book refer to it. This is my first experience so everything is new, which at least helps me avoid thinking I have something correct and the obvious frustration that comes with.
It's late and I'm tired so this may not be the most accurate definition... HTML is about the structure of a document to enable its presentation. XML is about the tags within a document, defining them in order to enable a web service. This is off the top of my head so I invite all corrections.
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