Sunday, February 13th, 2011...10:37 pm
Ch. 1 ‘We are all web workers now’
Image by Lars K. Jensen via Flickr
In the first chapter of Mark Briggs‘ “Journalism Next,” Briggs starts off by stating that we as a society take the Internet and e-mail for granted.
He then goes on to define ‘digital information’ and how to create and save text files, audio files, picture files and video files. One of the tips that Briggs advises for Internet etiquette is to never send a file larger than 1 MB through e-mail, because it can clog your server and the recipient’s server, particularly if it’s a company address you’re sending it to.
Briggs then explains how the Internet works and what the cache is and that it’s a good idea to clean it out regularly to help your system run faster and more efficient. Briggs advises uses RSS feeds (as we did for our blogs) because it’s the easiest way to consume massive amounts of information; it reminds me a lot of Twitter.
He then outlines how to quickly build an HTML page. As anyone who has perused the Internet, he recommends adding images and other visuals to make your Web page not so boring. After explaining HTML, Briggs details CSS which helps to further delve into a Web page to make it look better. He advises to have at least a small amount of CSS knowledge so as to be able to tweak the sites you may potentially work with.