Blog Assignment #6

Flash is a common and popular format for making a highly interactive website. A flash website will generally have many reactions that can be caused by clicking, scrolling, hovering, etc. Flash can also be used to display video, which has recently become a very popular alternative to using video formants such .mp4, .wmv, and other formants that may require separate plugins. Flash is also commonly used for playing music on websites, such as a band website. In addition, a very common use of flash is for advertisements that are more eye catching then a standard image.

Disney

On the Disney Website, the majority, if not all, of the sites content is Flash. The site feature videos in the flash format, along with it’s menus and games. The strong use of flash makes it visually appealing to younger kids, and has a minimalistc amount of words.

myspace

myspace.com uses flashing mainly for advertisements. In addition, they use it for their music and video player. Myspace is a prime example of all the potentials of flash.

Blog Assignment #5

The movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, was an entertaining and interesting film. Many would think a computer movie would be boring, but in actually it was quite well. The movie follows the rivalry between Apple Computers and Microsoft over the creation of the personal computer. The film taught me that Microsoft and Apple Computers did actually have confrontation, which i thought never happened.

But unlike the movie says, Apple Computers did not actually “steel” XEROX’s software. Steve Jobs negotiated a deal with Xerox wherein Xerox invested US$1M in Apple in return for 10,000 pre-IPO shares of Apple, and Apple was granted permission to utilize XEROX’s ideas. [1]. With in a year Xerox’s shares in Apple were valued at $17.6 million. But Microsoft did actually steel Apple’s software, and apple lost the copyright lawsuit. In summary, Apple paid the “rich neighbor”, then Microsoft stole what they bought from the “rich neighbor”.

Based on the movie, I found out that Steve Jobs is an ass, but i’m not sure exactly how accurate this actually is. But either way, i still like apple better, because everything about it is better, the look, the feel, everything. And the zune needs to go on a diet because it is huge and ugly.

Blog Assignment #4

Hierarchical Navigation

Hierarchical navigation is a style of navigation that is commonly used on many websites. YOu first start out going to the main page and then from their you select subcategories and even deeper subcategories.

Xbox.com
Xbox.com features a Hierarchical Navigation system. You start at the main page and then you select different categories such as “Xbox Live” or “Support” then from there other subcatergories are displayed. This makes it very easy to find things, but if you aren’t sure of exactly what you are looking for, or if you aren’t internet sabby, this could lead to complications.

Yahoo.com
On the yahoo website, the menu is placed on the left side with many different categories. Once a category is selected it will take you to that page and it will have many different sub options similar to other types of Hierarchical Navigation sites.

Global Navigation

Global navigation is a style of navigation that is more of list of all the pages you can access.

Wikipedia.org
On wikipedia they organize their articles in a global nav. manner. The articles are divided into many different subsections that are selected form the menu at the top of the page. On wikipedia, you never leave the article page upon selecting a link, you are just dropped down to that part of the page.

Grossmont.edu
On the grossmont college website there is a long list of links at the bottom of the page. This the primary source of navigation for the website.