Screen Dimensions (3.1.2)

I viewed the Curtin homepage using IE 7 at the following resolutions -

640 x 480
The page was fine in a maximised browser window.

Next I viewed the page in a browser window that I had resized to roughly half the page.
The page still looked ok, some minor text-overlap from the 'Information about' bar onto the main image, but the links were still readable. You had to scroll down the page to read the information on the footer.

800 x 600
The page was fine in a maximised browser window.

In a resized browser window the page was still fine.

1024 x 768
The page was fine in a maximised browser window.

In a resized browser window the page was still fine.

Using Any Browser to view the Curtin homepage, I found the results quite surprising (see image below)

Using the HTML 3.2 Validation tool it showed the Curtin homepage had 97 errors.

Engine View showed what information search engines found about the Curtin homepage through meta tags.

My studies so far

I'm studying NED11 (Internet Design) online at Curtin University of Technology this semester. My other online unit, NET11 (Internet Communications) required me to start a 'learning log' in the form of a blog, or website, or if we couldn't manage that even a word document as a type of progress-meter of our studies throughout the semester.

I've liked having my NET11 blog so much that I had to start one for my NED11 studies as well :) (just this blog doesn't get marked! )

The first few days of study have been spent reading about various things to do with the Internet, such as the formation of ARPA (also known as DARPA throughout the years), leaning about packet switching, and reading the complete history of the Internet through various websites.

My first task was to read through Tim Berners-Lee's answers to FAQ by the press and answer seven questions relating to those FAQs. This was a little hard, but I did take the time to answer each one. We aren't getting assessed on this, I guess it's just to increase our knowledge of the Internet and Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web.

Today I'm going to read Hobbes' Internet Timeline, and then my task is to find 5 milestones that are relevant to the following: World Wide Web, screen design and multimedia design.

Time to start studying!

- Mary