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Week 9 Reading Comments & Muddiest Point

Readings:
XML:
The first XML article helped breakdown XML for me some. I seem to get easily thrown off by all the acronyms, knowing I've come across them before, but hardly ever remembering them. It did finally sink in that the start and end of each logical element of the file has to be identified, which I have a feeling will be useful to know for our next assignment.

XML Standards:
What I liked about this article was that an abundance of helpful articles and sites were included. These are sites I will likely visit in the future to gain a better idea of what all is included in XML. I also liked the sidenote that gave information pertaining to the various organizations and informal groups involved in creating XML standards.

Extending Markup:
I felt this tutorial was extremely easy to read. There's still a ton of information to try and absorb, but this was an easy tutorial to go through. It was also humorous. I loved how the author pointed out that you encounter tons of 3-letter acronyms when learning this information.

Schema Tutorial:
This also did a good job of breaking down information, but was again, a lot to absorb. The listed restrictions will likely be handy to get familiar with though.

Muddiest Point:
I am curious if when using colors in presentation tags, how specific can one actually get. If I want a particular shade of green, do I specify "lime green," or how does one chose specific shades of color?

Koha Assignment

URL to Koha Assignment: Vegetarian Cookbooks

http://pitt5.opacwc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?viewshelf=33

Week 8 Notes and Muddiest Point

Notes:
W3school tutorial: This tutorial was very helpful. Everything was broken down, very clear and concise.
HTML Cheat sheet: This list of codes would be very helpful for setting up a page.
W3school Cascading Style Sheet: I had never heard of these, so it was interesting to learn that styles define how to display HTML elements. Again, the examples were nice for demonstrating points.
Beyond HTML article: This article was a lot to take in. It basically talked about a content management system meant to manage 30 web-based research guides. It seems that you would need, like in this article, to have a very knowledgeable web team in place to make such a system.

Muddiest Point:
I am curious, since it keeps coming up, why there is so much redundancy on the Web. With 30-40% of content duplicated, are there people trying to get rid of this, or is no one really concerned?

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Assignment #4

URL on screencast:
http://www.screencast.com/users/Southwo/folders/Jing/media/5c7b12c3-18ea-44dd-a583-5026e7819941

Demo on how to get driving directions from point A (the Andy Warhol Museum) to point B (the Cleveland Art Museum)
URL for step 1:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30536003@N02/2909261522/?addedcomment=1#comment72157607683070648

Step 2 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30536003@N02/2909282716/

Step 3 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30536003@N02/2909314350/

Step 4 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30536003@N02/2908455059/

Step 5 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30536003@N02/2908458387/

Step 6 URL:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30536003@N02/2908463011/