15/2/08 - 21/2/08

In the lecture we looked at writing for multimedia, which involved topics such as writing style, printing vs online reading, publishing vs dialogue, maintenance etc. I found this weeks lecture useful for covering the many different aspects of writing for multimedia and how the features such as linking can affect how people actually look at the content on a page, eg if links are distracting the user may click on it without reading what's on the rest of the page.

In the tutorial, we had attatched a database to an the asp page so that it could read data from it. I found the tutorial useful to help develop my knowledge of CSS and found designing the website interesting as it isn't something I've done a lot of before now. It was another opportunity to familiarise myself with dreamweaver a bit more so I found that aspect helpful.

Overall I found the tutorial and lecture both useful this week. I found that I developed my knowledge of CSS and web design during the tutorials, and how using writing for multimedia can affect how people portray how people react to different aspects of a piece of text. I found a website that also explained how to link asp pages to an access database, just for a bit of extra help incase I needed it later on:

http://www.haneng.com/Lessons_17.asp


I also found the website below, which covered writing for multimedia and topics such as how to organise content etc:

http://writing.atomicmartinis.com/