This week I started re-working my website. I'm creating a banner with CSS, instead of just using an image, I am also using "auto" margins and putting the content & sidebar in the middle of the page (I don't remember exactly what that is called). I'm also changing the color scheme :o)
One thing that I was having trouble with is the "allcontent" or "wrapper" div. Because it has a different background color than the "body" (the page margins) I want to be sure it stretches to the bottom of the content or the bottom of the sidebar--whichever is shorter. I don't remember how to do this and I can't find anything in the book. I'll ask about this in class tonight.
The privacy readings are interesting. I was looking at the one about Facebook, too, since I'm an avid Facebook user. My opinion on the subject comes down to: ultimately you are the one responsible for what information you share online. If you don't want anyone to have your phone number, don't include that on your profile information or use a fake number. Don't post anything on a social networking site that you aren't okay with other people knowing. My husband was telling me about a news story this week about someone who got fired for posting on Facebook that she hated her boss. Well, it appears that this person had their privacy settings set so anyone could see their status updates. That's not smart! As a rule, if I don't want some people to know something, but I do want others to know...I use email, not Facebook.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Learning Blog 9
The issue of copyright is really interesting when you start thinking of everything that is being put online these days. Part of it is scary (people can so easily steal your creative ideas), part of it is reassuring (that once an idea/content is put online, it is copyrighted--at least from what I understood from the readings).
Open access is another one of those issues that has some major pros and major cons. What I'd be most worried about is the incentive to create anything new if you're not going to get paid for it. I understand that a lot of journal articles don't generate income, but scholars will still write articles to aid in their tenure tracks (which, in its way, is a payment of sorts). But for creative writers, it's a different story.
Open access might be good for non-copyright eligible materials (like factual information, per the readings) or materials that would't be paid for anyway. I get that Open Access is one of those things that's supposed to be good for humankind and promote a community of shared ideas. BUT...I'm not sure this would work, realistically. For a lot of people, there'd be no incentive to put the time and effort into research and creation if everyone could access it for free.
But that's just my opinion!! I'm interested to hear what people have to say during the table talk tonight.
For this week's Head First chapter, I was glad to see answers to my questions about my page's footer--about how to position it. I'll have to play around with the sidebar and footer positions to get everything looking right :o)
Open access is another one of those issues that has some major pros and major cons. What I'd be most worried about is the incentive to create anything new if you're not going to get paid for it. I understand that a lot of journal articles don't generate income, but scholars will still write articles to aid in their tenure tracks (which, in its way, is a payment of sorts). But for creative writers, it's a different story.
Open access might be good for non-copyright eligible materials (like factual information, per the readings) or materials that would't be paid for anyway. I get that Open Access is one of those things that's supposed to be good for humankind and promote a community of shared ideas. BUT...I'm not sure this would work, realistically. For a lot of people, there'd be no incentive to put the time and effort into research and creation if everyone could access it for free.
But that's just my opinion!! I'm interested to hear what people have to say during the table talk tonight.
For this week's Head First chapter, I was glad to see answers to my questions about my page's footer--about how to position it. I'll have to play around with the sidebar and footer positions to get everything looking right :o)
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