Monday, September 29, 2008

Assignment 3


THE SEMANTIC WEB AND DREAMWEAVER





My Experience with Dreamweaver: 


I was always excited about working with DreamWeaver, getting to make my webpages rather than write them is so much easier for me to because I don't have to do much calculating and trial and error when writing code. Dreamweaver makes it easy to choose what elements you'd want on the page and display them before you save it for the web. In beginning my father's webpage for his company, My Legacy Enterprises, I've had trouble using tables and AP div's because, although they were easy to create, tables not as flexible/moveable as div's, while div's are less capable to be something other than a box. I would really like to learn more about how to make tables and DIVs to work for me and become something a little more creative (I want to know more about what these things can do). 

How do I get boxes with round edges?

If I need to convert a DIV back to a table, what must I make sure to do?

How can I incorporate flash objects and photoshop'd layouts into dreamweaver?

The Semantic Web




This video gave me the general understanding of what the semantic web means and how it is useful to the end user. The semantic web brings together the data and information from around the web to better connect the web community. I liked what Eyal Oren had said in his video about how it is a new layer of communication for humans and machines and that the semantic web is a way to share a language between human to computer and vice versa that could be understood and followed by computers.

I think that this new method is very innovative, but I do feel a bit skeptical when it comes to the privacy issue. 


Will the semantic web screen information so that it is safely stored and keep private data separate from public data?  


How exactly would that be executed? 


Is the semantics already a code for the computers to learn? 


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