Monday, April 4, 2011

Creating Interactive Hand-Written Web Pages on Tablet PC

In this class I have realized that most Web pages are based on text, pictures, and graphics. The Tablet PC provides another method to convey information by incorporating written content. Adding handwriting to your Web pages enables you to have a more personal look and feel. Incorporating pen-enabled actions means that you users can enter data while standing, rather than needing a place to rest a keyboard. Users can also annotate over images, providing greater ability to easily point out specific details in those images. By creating interactive ink content, you make your Web site more interesting, more useful, and provide extended feedback to the user.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Things That Can Be Done With jQuery

The things that can be done with jQuery are
jQuery makes it easy to write powerful JavaScript apps and create eye-catching animated effects rivalling those of Flash movies. Amongst other things, jQuery is great for:
•Adding animated effects to elements. jQuery lets you easily add effects such as fading in/out, sliding in/out, and expanding/contracting.
•Making XML (Ajax) requests. These use JavaScript to request additional data from the Web server without having to reload the page.
•Manipulating the DOM. You can easily add, remove, and reorder content in the Web page using just a couple of lines of code.
•Creating image slideshows. You can use jQuery effects to build nice animated slideshows and lightboxes.
•Making drop-down menus. jQuery makes it easy to create multi-level dropdowns with animations.
•Creating drag-and-drop interfaces. Use jQuery to build a page with elements that can be repositioned or reordered simply by dragging and dropping.
•Adding power to forms. With jQuery you can easily add complex client-side form validation, create auto-complete Ajax text fields that pull data from a server-side database.
Desktop applications that would make great Web applications : microsoft office templates.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

My Experience Creating an Interactive Web Page

I'm working or creating an interactive web page that would provide standard-based learning curriculum web resources, designed to enhance online learning opportunities for children in primary school (K1-K8) in Africa with little or no computer skills.
The site will be designed to interact with its users through a text-based or graphical user interface with a minimum computer skill. The site/web page will be designed using dynamic HTML (DHTML) as the markup language that allows scripting language to change variable which in turn affects the look and function of the static HTML page content.
The basic aspects of this web page are:
- The content; the substance information on the site should be relevant and should target the people the web site concerns.
- The usability; the site should be user friendly with the interface and navigation sample and reliable.
- The appearance; the graphic and text should include single style that flows throughout.
- The structure; it was a quite challenging experience creating a user-friendly web page to meet

Monday, March 14, 2011

What Features of the Constitution Make it Difficult for Government to do or Achieve Anything

The separation of powers in the constitutions that prevent government from having his way to take a decision and implement it. The reasons that the constitutions has apportion the decision making process and it subsequent implementation among the three arms of government. The executive may introduce a policy statement in the form of a deal to congress but whether that policy can see the light of the day depends on the approval or other wise of congress. This means that, if congress is not in agreement with the government it will shut down the policy statement which has been introduced. The adjudication process is also entrusted to the judiciary such that if the president or any member of the executive does something or decides to do anything, the government action can be challenge in the supreme court and if the court comes with a determination, that the government action is unconstitutional it will order the government to seized and desist from taking such action. However, there are certain areas in the constitution which give the power to the executive to tale a decision and implement it. Example, the power to wage war. But even here the government will still have to forward to congress the budget on the war. In my opinion the constitution should remain the same.

EXPERIENCE OF CREATING A FEEDBACK FORM AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK

Using the Jot form website to create forms is the most easiest and comfortable to work with. This is due to the fact that you have everything needed on the website that makes no error in creating a form. The most difficult part of creating the jot form is the dates and years because is a repetitive work. Jot form also gives you access to people to post in their comments and feedback on the website I created. Receiving feedback from my classmates has motivated me to keep doing a wonderful job on my website because the entire class could be watching my website. I have received great response from some of my classmates. They rated my website with an average of 5 points and I am very proud of myself. I started this class only knowing how to check my email and my online class. Today, I have my own website and I believe I have accomplished a lot. I also believe a journey of a thousand miles starts with step and I have really started the journey very well. I love the direction this class is leading me to in terms of creating things on your own guided with the right steps by the professor.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Web Application "Bing"

Bing is a search engine a computer application created by Microsoft Ceo Steve Ballmer, it originally was named Kumo and because the name did not seem so appealing they stuck with Bing. This service engine has not been part of the internet world like its pioneers Google and Yahoo. Although Bing is fairly new it has some qualities that can be interesting for those who are computer literate. It does not have much listing when looking for categories thus making it easier to do simple searches unlike Google the image, map, videos, etc can be a little midi occur and even none existing. I compare Bing to Google because in order for Bing to become as famous and reliable as Google it will have to step it up a notch. I searched for a local restaurant on both Google and Bing, Google automatically looked up the name by location and then listed all other facilities with the same name in different towns near me, Bing on the other hand gave me only one half of page with listings and none where anywhere near my location. In summary Bing has potential but it has a lot of work to do to catch up to Google.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Cascading Style Sheets

It is one of the difficult tasks I am still facing this semester with this class. I believe I made some mistakes when I started styling and if you look at my website I have only changed the heading titles to blue and also the click buttons to red. The journey of cascading is still an ongoing process and I have to go back and read the steps video the professor posted and hopefully, I will be able to complete the cascading style sheet. There is a saying that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a step. I believe I have started the journey with a step. All I need to do is to go back and start all over. I looked at some of my class mates website and I loved the cascading style especially Anteah’s website. The only way a person can get better is to learn from their mistakes. I will revisit my website and try to complete the CSS once and for all. I believe he who fights and run away needs to fight another day so why not stay and complete the fight