Last lesson we started to research e-books, loking at differnt sites and the e books themselves. I choose to do 2 different websites, first was www.e-boooks.com and the second was www.gutenberg.org. I used these two websites because they are so differnt, for the first one the site was very bold and colourful, with many links and differnt ways to narrow down the search for your book. The ebook itself from that site was also more detailed, this included the front cover of the book and pages with picutres and backgrounds.
In the gutenberg website everything was very different, there was not as much wirtitng and the colour was very bland. The gutenberg website was not appealing to the eye and for the e books themsleves, well they were extreamly dull, this was because of the amount of writing that was dumped all onto one page with no way of running through the book via links to certain sections, only means of navigation was a mini scroll bar down the side which was hard to use and made it hard to find certain sections. Although it had all these faults there were the two good points, which were it was faster to download than the ones at e-books.com beacuse of thier simplicity and they were also free.
Also durign our research we came across something new which could be used in our project. Its called ipaper and its a substitute to pdf, the differnce bieng is that there are features such as 'email to a friend' which doenst come with pdf and also that it down need to be downloaded or opened in a new tab or window as it is already loaded onto the main screen. Ipaper is embeded onto the website and allows the viewer to read the document without any downloads or waiting what so ever, and also no need to download nay new pluggins to your excisting browser.
From this lesson i learnt that too plain is not atracive to the readers eye and that some sort of navigation tool will be needed for easy access to certain areas of the book without having to scroll through everypage in the book ot reach the last one as seen in the gutenberg website.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Introduction
Welcome to my first Blog.
My name is Tarek and I am creating a blog to track my record and express my feelings on the ICT course I am doing at school for AS.
I chose ICT as one of my courses for the main reason is that I have a great internest in IT and I also see that in this preasent day a kowledge on software and computers is very vital and can help me throughout any carrer or job i wish to take on.
At the beggining of the ICT course I found that we were doing alot more listening to the teacher than actually doing any practical work on teh computers, I found this quite dull and did not feel at all enthusiastic to what we might be doing in the near future.
Despite all of this we eventually started to get some real work, reseaching e books and starting up our own blogs, this said I think that the course should be fun, intresting and I hope I achieve the grades I want.
My name is Tarek and I am creating a blog to track my record and express my feelings on the ICT course I am doing at school for AS.
I chose ICT as one of my courses for the main reason is that I have a great internest in IT and I also see that in this preasent day a kowledge on software and computers is very vital and can help me throughout any carrer or job i wish to take on.
At the beggining of the ICT course I found that we were doing alot more listening to the teacher than actually doing any practical work on teh computers, I found this quite dull and did not feel at all enthusiastic to what we might be doing in the near future.
Despite all of this we eventually started to get some real work, reseaching e books and starting up our own blogs, this said I think that the course should be fun, intresting and I hope I achieve the grades I want.
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