Colin Manning Munster Technological University

We returned to the topic of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

We looked at Trade Marks and Trade Secrets.

Here's an online video I made some time about about JPEG. It is largely the same as what we did in class. This rather unusua...

For the remaining 6 weeks of the semester the DNET1 labs will be taken with James O'Sullivan. I will still see students in the lectures.

We looked at GIF & JPEG image formats. [no recording due to technical problems]

Today I corrected any errors in the essay choices of which I was made aware. Students may no longer chose a topic. That choice was made fo...

We looked at dithering. [no recording] We did an exercise in class. There are other similar exercises in the slides. I answered a few qu...

For this weeks blog post students are expected to guest post on someone else's blog. To allow someone to be an author on your blog, you ...

Essay If you didn't send me your choice of essay title, one has been assigned to you. You can check the blog list to see what you got....

I did a quick recap of HSB, RGB, Lab We looked at CMYK. We looked at Indexed colour and palette selections for different images.

We looked at digitising grey scale images an looked at coding colour. I explained the HSB, RGB, and Lab colour systems.

Students saved the GIF images they needed for Assessment 2.

Review This was a slow week I felt. We didn't do much technically, although maybe the conversations about privacy were worthwhile. H...

Students worked on their blogs. Some took the NewsU course today.  I met with each student and identified some issues with grammar and spell...

We continued our look at how search engines index sites. I asked students to discuss for a few minutes the kinds of things Google might kn...

The plan to do an olde school FTP session to a UNIX machine didn't work. The Windows security systems thought we were trying to bypass t...

My plan to do an FTP session didnt' work out because the firewalls on the machines wouldn't allow it. Some students found a workarou...

I talked about Directories and we began our look at Search Engines. We stopped at Slide 35   (I was a bit rushed because I was in t...

We looked at some of the issues surrounding web hosting and domain names.

This week I plan to discuss uploading a website to a server  get students to upload using FTP during the lab look at ways to promote a w...