Day Two of Website Creation: hyperlinking, image use and copyright attribute

A couple of nights ago, I started working on my website again. After a break from the first day, I started thinking about how to go about completing Task 1: Digital Citizenship. I figured out some components that required some extra work by: talking to friends, reading the unit guide (page 13), looking at the rubric and looking at completed blogs.

When I first heard about the first assignment for EDN113, I was totally freaking out, because I never thought I would ever design my own webpage. I always thought designing a webpage, meant you had to be able to use JavaScript and develop a magical code. It turns out that I was over-thinking it because the online app - weebly, made my life easier. After I discovered how to devise some pages, I procrastinated because I wasn't really sure what to do. Luckily for me, my friends informed me that we had to complete a webpage with: a homepage, about me and a blog. However, at the time I still felt confused and by reading the unit guide and examining the rubric, I have consolidated the idea that a website is comprised of a home page, about me section, a blog for discussions and specific pages that have been made specifically made for the website, e.g. Digital Citizenship and Social Learner etc. 

Some complications that I hit when spicing up my home page was trying to find a suitable image, which was creative commons approved or copyright friendly and technology related. I tried using Google to search for technology and information I found an image which I wanted to use at, Understanding the different aspects of technology and automated solutions, however I could not find the creative commons license. Later I found out in the lecture that if a website is: "Copyright © (year) All Rights Reserved," it actually meant that I was unable to use the image. I also found out that if it does not state it is copyright protected, is automatically is - meaning its better to look for another image.

I also discovered that attribution means to give credit to the owner of the artwork. I came across this information from Jenni Parker's lecture and from on a creative commons extension from Flickr when I was searching for some images for my webpage.

Lastly hyper-linking was something that I just knew about. Hyper-linking is usually represented by a 'chain' icon in Microsoft Word.

Likewise in Weebly it is still represented as a chain. When I wanted to hyperlink my blog to my website for example. I highlighted the text, 'blog' and clicked the 'chain' and went to my blog and copied the link and pasted into the pop-up from Weebly.com. 

Hope this will assist someone in the future, and that I can look back and remember I will remember what it was like to a student again. Ciao