http://www.craigteakle.co.uk Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:29:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick post to let you all know the new purpose for this blog and the tag cloud on the right hand side of the site. I originally set up this website for part of a final year multimedia blogging project whilst studying for my  degree in 2008. However, now that my student days are behind me, rather ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=228 Finally, I've reached the end of my 315CMC multimedia journey...and what a journey its been!!! 182 tags, 84 Posts, 49 Screen Shots, 7 Categories, 3 Yahoo Pipe RSS Feeds, 3 Videos, 2 Google Maps, 2 Essays, 1 PHP Random Quote Page and a fully stocked NextGen Flash Gallery, not to mention countless hours ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=187 My oh My, I've actually managed to edit and embed some PHP code which generates a random quote onto my site, an absolute miracle, and something I would never have thought possible a few weeks ago! The tic tac toe game did not work as for some reason wordpress automatically edited ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=184 Just a quick post to let you know I have finished amending my response to essay question 2 (comparing Web 1.0 to Web 2.0), in accordance with Mez's recommendations. I've added a bit about the technological developments of AJAX and tagging to the essay. My response to question 2 is ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=183 In order to achieve a higher grade I created a page which I could try and incorporate some PHP code into my site. I copied the code from http://www.codango.com/php/fnc/content/?tree=phpin/codesnips/fungames&id=7388110 as recommended by Mez. As I have installed Exec PHP, so in theory it should work fine. I turned off the visual text ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=181 I went into the CSS and amended the text body colour to white, with the sidebar header changed to red, so that It completely matches both the main body and navigation bar colour schemes, and also my amazing new Tag cloud. I think this matching colour scheme looks alot better than ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=171 Harrahhh! I've managed to get my flash tag cloud working absolutely perfectly, exactly how I want it. Of course the required action was blindingly simple. All I needed to do is install the Exec PHP plugin on m site using the FTP filemanager in dreamweaver. Once I did that, the code that ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=170 I've noticed that when the SMS message widget is activated the footer message does not show. I like having the footer message displaying as it makes my site look professional - more professional than a widget that will hardly get used and in all honesty looks a bit odd. Below ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=167 Whilst writing my essay I found an interesting article/report type thing by a guy called Douglas Gantenbein of Microsoft, in which he discusses the marketing powers of social media and Web 2.0. It may prove useful if you are interested in a career in web based marketing upon graduation. Here is a link which takes you ... http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=166 As promised I have re-drafted the my response to essay question 4, in which I've tried to incorporate the amendments and content recommended by Mez at the start of the week. It is posted on the page entitled Essay 2. Have a look http://www.craigteakle.co.uk/?p=165