Did you like the blogs?
- Yes and no. I liked how easy it was to post things and such, but I didn't like having another thing to worry about in this ever growing and expanding world of social media. Perhaps I'm just lame, but I don't like social media, and so I didn't like that I had to start a blog for this class. I'll probably just end up deleting it (but I don't know how). :)
Did you like posting assignments on your blog instead of turning a paper copy in during class?
- YES! Saves me time, I could do the assignment ANYWHERE as long as I had a computer with internet, and I saved paper = I saved a twig on a tree! Plus a lot of the assignments were really short and simple, and so it would have been dumb to have to do a paper assignment that you turn in that's only got one paragraph of stuff on it.
Have you enjoyed reading your peers' blogs? Was it useful to you to see everyone's responses to the assignments?
- Sometimes. I didn't always having to read 4 of them (especially when we had a long post), but some of the stuff said was funny and got me to laugh.
- Sometimes it was helpful seeing their responses to the assignments. Often times the responses were a simple: Oh, I know how you feel...I've had the same problem... Basically the exact same stuff, but no solutions. But there were times that someone did give you some legit advice, and so that was helpful.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Analysis on one of my websites
I don't know if I'm going crazy or what, but it seems like the format for YouTube has just changed since the last time I was up there, and it's much better. But it's still not my most favorite.
- There's not a whole lot of strategic placing of things on the website (and there's a LOT on the main page). Yes, at the top center is the search box for what video you want to look up, but directly below it is a big add window that almost hides it because it attracts so much attention, and so unless you're looking for the search window you won't find it. So the website is awfully concerned with advertising, and I don't use YouTube to get products shown to me, I use YouTube to watch what I want to see. So I don't like that. Plus, there are tons of video links off to the right, and a tab of options on the left, and a whole bunch of who knows whats in the center. So it's organized and there's proximity, but there's just a LOT. But since I last got on, it seems like they've taken a few things off, so it's just a little less cluttered, which I like. They should just keep taking more off in my opinion.
- But I think the website has changed, because I think the color is different now, and instead of lots of stressful red, there's a fair amount of soothing really dark shades of grey.
- The rule of thirds (for composition) doesn't exist at all on YouTube, because it's all about showing as many video adds and choppy videos non-professionals have done as possible. So there's no real pattern to composition, because everything is just so random; there's no norm for YouTube.
- And there's TONS of repetition. Tons of video links that just go on and on down the page, but the size and style and color of the font remains consistent which I'm VERY grateful for, because if every video had a different font style and size, I would die just trying to read a few of them simply because there's so many videos links so close together.
- There's not a whole lot of strategic placing of things on the website (and there's a LOT on the main page). Yes, at the top center is the search box for what video you want to look up, but directly below it is a big add window that almost hides it because it attracts so much attention, and so unless you're looking for the search window you won't find it. So the website is awfully concerned with advertising, and I don't use YouTube to get products shown to me, I use YouTube to watch what I want to see. So I don't like that. Plus, there are tons of video links off to the right, and a tab of options on the left, and a whole bunch of who knows whats in the center. So it's organized and there's proximity, but there's just a LOT. But since I last got on, it seems like they've taken a few things off, so it's just a little less cluttered, which I like. They should just keep taking more off in my opinion.
- But I think the website has changed, because I think the color is different now, and instead of lots of stressful red, there's a fair amount of soothing really dark shades of grey.
- The rule of thirds (for composition) doesn't exist at all on YouTube, because it's all about showing as many video adds and choppy videos non-professionals have done as possible. So there's no real pattern to composition, because everything is just so random; there's no norm for YouTube.
- And there's TONS of repetition. Tons of video links that just go on and on down the page, but the size and style and color of the font remains consistent which I'm VERY grateful for, because if every video had a different font style and size, I would die just trying to read a few of them simply because there's so many videos links so close together.
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