Jimdo

I have decided to test jimdo as it looked intersting. you have to sign up in order to edit blogs in this one: this i sthe home page:

Ok so the first problem with jimdo is that it says you have to go to your email fo rthe login instructions, but when you open your email there is nothing there. The beginning step itself comes with problems.

So I didnt get an email and i have tried it twice. But on the site you can see the various featrues it has if i were to get a mail. thi sis what it look slike after i log on :

Jimbo has differebt pages as well . 1 jimdo basic- which looks good but wehen compared to other ones it is less appealing 2 jimdo pro- which is a slightly better version and opens up more features than the basic package. and 3 jimdo business which is the ultimate webpage designing tool.

Jimdo allows me to put pictures in two very convenient ways- as little grids, which , when you click on will enlarge or as a very pro-looking flash gallery. It also allows me to put PDF files on the site.

I can also change the overall deisign, the background colour, the background pattern and the header image at the top. 

I finally got the password in my email but I had to wait for an astounding3 hours!!! Any way I logged on to the site and immediately looked at the long side bar located on the right hand side. It allowed me to change the layout of my webpage, the font and colour of every text on my webpage, completely make a new blog in order for me to post things about my website, add friends and create links to their pages( a good sign of collaboration), message my friends on twitter, statistics of Jimdo usage, and a help button. There was also a settings button which had a lot of other things in tit such as my blog and profile settings, email and domain management, widgets to add to the website, and many more. Just take a look:

In order to edit the already premade text boxes, we just click on them. Then it opens up a format similar to blogger when postings, for us to edit any changes.

VERSATILITY: Jimdo is versatile as it allows me to add HTML links, pictures, firstly photos. However when compared to Wix, I think Jimdo will lose in versatility as Wix also provides animations and way more photos than Jimdo.

EASE OF USE: Jimdo is extremely easy to use as it is straightforward. If you want to change something you just click on it. But I don’t like it when you have to actually use an arrow to move the title or picture. I would have liked it if we could just move it with our cursor. In the ease of use, I think Jimdo defeats Wix because it looks complicated. Both work on the same method but Jimdo seems easier to my brain. Jimdo had additional features that are interesting but you can only access them if you upgrade.

COLLABORATION: I do not need to worry about collaboration as I am doing the assignment alone but I heard that In order to make a website in Jimdo with a friend, it would be better if you worked on different pages and linked the pages back to one website. IF they do work on the same page, the information done by one person will be deleted as the other one save after them.

Piracy Research

http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_views/what_is_piracy.html
I have accesed information from this website for the following research. I have already put it in my own words.
- Define piracy
- The word “piracy” is usually used to represent the purposeful intrusion of copyright on a profit-making scale.
- Who commits piracy? Why do the do it?
- Well... PEOPLE pirate different things like-movies, music, videos etc... In order to either make copies of it and distribute it illegally and gain profit from others works or to avoid paying for the actual piece and getting it for free.
- Define copyright
- “Copyright is a type of legal protection for people who produce things like writing, images, music and films. It is a legal right to prevent others from doing certain things (such as copying and making available online) without permission.” In other words it is a type of legal protection for the composers of pieces writing, images, music and films, from piracy.
- How does is protect piracy of information?
- First of all we need to understand that copyright protects the form or way an idea or information is expressed, not the idea or information itself. Therefore it protects the “information” through giving the owner of the information notice and asking them for permission. If they pirate without their consent, penalties, sentences and/or prosecutions may be instigated.
- Who can use copyright?
- People that use copyright usually include: A State, Territory or Federal Government, Films and sound recordings, Freelance photographers, engravers and people doing portrait, and Employees
- What kind of multimedia is pirated or can be copyrighted? (discuss the individual multimedia elements)
- As said before pieces writing, images, music and films can be pirated or copyrighted.
- What are the different ways that multimedia is pirated?
- Physical piracy: Physical music piracy (making or distributing copies of sound recordings on physical carriers without the permission of the rights owner), Counterfeits (they are a type of physical piracy, These are recordings made without required permission, which are packaged to resemble the original as closely as possible), and Bootlegs (unauthorised recording of live broadcasting programmes and the distributing of its copies) Internet Piracy: Now this is a broad topic. "Internet piracy" is commonly used to refer to a variety of unauthorised uses of music or other creative content on the internet.

This information below was gathered from:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/cs201/projects/software-piracy/personal.html

- What are the advantages of piracy, if there are any?
- Don’t have to pay for information The first and foremost advantage is that there is no cost involved. You do not have to buy the original software. Then it is the ease of use- it is very easy to acquire and requires no physical strain that you would normally take part in if you were to buy the actual thing. Another advantage is that you remain anonymous whenever you do something illegal. It is often perceived as a “victimless” crime when actually the victims are the several businesses and composers of the actual thing. Profit is what might occur when you pirate something. All you would need is a cheap CD burner and voila!
- What are the disadvantages?
- Cost to industry, loss of income to artists The biggest problem is that piracy is illegal. If you get tracked, the police can fine you and you can get year’s long sentences in jails. The problem with piracy is that, if it is software, you can easily get viruses into your computer that may crash your whole system. Also you might not get much out of the pirated version as you would if it was an original one. You wouldn't have the manual and also the copied versions are usually not eligible for any upgrades.
This info was gatheres from a reliable government site-http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit014/wp0125

- Are there different types of copyright?
- No, it is the same for everything. The minute a person finishes their piece, it is copyrighted- as in no one can copy it.
- What are the advantages of copyright?
- Protecting own work from illegal use, consequences on those who illegally use copyrighted information (what are the consequences? The consequences are fines, penalties and prosecutions as pirating is against the law.)
- How to you pirate something?
- Pirating has become easier with the creation of software on the internet such as specific programs-Limewire or Torrentz and multimedia devices (dvd’s, CD’s, Flash memory, DVD/CD Rom Burners). With the help of recording multimedia (audio/video recorders or even phones)people can record the live or actual piece
- How do you copyright something? Is there a cost involved?
- You would think that it is a long legal process over the Internet or phone but actually, after the second you finish your work, you are the rightful copyright owner of the piece.
- Is there a cost to pirate information?
- What is the loss of cost to the industry (music, movie, software etc.) when information is copyrighted
- An example is when apple lost 301million from piracy if the apps in the App store in Itouches and Iphones.
- What is the cost to the person if they are caught pirating or using copyrighted information? (fines)
- Fines may range. It depends of the scale of piracy.
- What is currently being done to stop or minimize piracy?
- Copyrighting pieces, applying fines and prosecutions to those who pirate, education, encryption (for digital material), and enforcement is what this website thinks will minimize piracy- http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/ci/31/i05/html/05legal.html
- What are the future plans to stop or minimize piracy, if there are any?
More realistic ads, heavy fines on uploaders of pirated copies as well as downloaders, education etc...

- http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/ci/31/i05/html/05legal.html
- http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYp4NM_ULivIuqPc42ZjTiXILtFvy9MH-hYIEFwV88Q3HtRBw&t=1&usg=__miF6hTtaxO1qmXA3v9a3EaJEVSs=
- http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYp4NM_ULivIuqPc42ZjTiXILtFvy9MH-hYIEFwV88Q3HtRBw&t=1&usg=__miF6hTtaxO1qmXA3v9a3EaJEVSs=

Piracy&Copyright

Through music and movies which are connected to the multimedia world , piracy can interconnect with the multimedia world

Disadvantages to the music indusrty/ film industry. loss of revenue for legitimate companies

Advantages- no money/ free
How people take part in  piracy - different softwares
the cost of the device

The next new software to stop piracy?


Copyright is difefrent to piracy

How does copyright protect people
Advantages
How to create copyright- whats required in order for you to copyright
How much does it cost
How much does it cost for a person who is coaught going against copyright

A Start

Today i am goign to start editing my wix page.
I can do my research at my house
So i am going to edit my wix page and format it

IMPORTANT POINTS

Answer the questions on topic


Dont copy and paste

Qs 5 and 6refer to the cost but it may not aplly for some topics
Mention the and pictures videos to relate to the questions you are answering


For the research

It needs to be easy to read

The way that we present it must be Easy to find

Answer qs in a logical manner

Instead of questions you can do sub headings.
Thens answer in dot points

Should already evaluated and blogged

Should be up to research phase

Make sutre i am blogging about the websitesi found the info from

Problems I overcame

What I Did This Lesson

Today I decided to explore wix. I needed to get use to the editing process of Wix because i ahd already decided that I was going to use it for my project. But Miss showed us a new site called JIMDO. i don't have time now but i will evaluate it on the weekend. :))

Skimming of Topics

The topics I chose were :
- Hand held multimedia devices ( e.g. umpc, iPod, itouch, iriver, touch screen phones, iPad
- Piracy and Copyright
- CPU’s – eg. dual core, Atom
- Bluetooth

WIX

"The sky is the limit" says Mr lenon when he saw this website.

My immediate concern was that will it be easy to edit because it is loaded with a huge amount of graphics which will take a while to load. Which means the downloading speed for wix is the concern because it uses the flash player.

However I have to say that is the only problem.

The amount of graphics is also a positive point. It gives a very professional and a high quality finish. You can add many widgets, animations, text and pages.
Another problem is that we ahve to weave our way through all the editing processes. What i mean is that it is hard to edit and it takes a while to insert the corrext things in the correct place. Though i think it will be hard to use, i believe that practice makes perfect and i am really attracted to the many templates/animattions/ widgets i can put in my website.

Versatility:
There are no words to describe the versatility of wix. It lets you add animation, text, graphics, videos, anything.:)) I LOVE IT!!

Ease of use:
If I spend a bit of time and explore it will be easy to use but because the computer at my house is slow, it means that I will not be able to do much at home. However i can research at my house and do all the insertion of the info and editing of the layout at school.

SUMMARY:
Wix is by far the most versatile website tool- It allows you to add text, galleries, animation, icons, picture, videos (from YouTube and Metacafe), music(Wix has preloaded tunes but also lets you add your own music), players, RSS, comment boxes, contact forms, Google maps, PayPal, ecommerce, HTML links along with many templates. You are getting excited reading this, aren’t you? Because it presents me with a variety of multimedia to insert into my website, I think Wix is extremely versatile.


The user interface for designers like me looks very complicated but I am assured that if I practice, I will be able to get used to it. To my subconscious mind, it feels complicated because of the high amount of graphics but I know that it is easy to use and works on the same principle as Jimdo and Protopage. Practice makes perfect. The user interface for visitors is going to be very interesting and appealing. People can freely navigate to any page they like whilst being enticed by the amazing animations and layout. This depends on the designer and I am confident that I can present that kind of navigational structure for the visitors of my website. In order to add components I just click on the type of component I want and I can either get it from a URL or I can upload pictures from my computer or I can get some of Wix’s photos or animations.

PROTOPAGE

Since I was away yesterday my friend Sangeeta gave me a run down on how to use protopage.

This is the home page of protopage.
As you can see it is very crowded but as I begin editing I will be able to delete everything and put up things I want... I noticed that it is very easy to put texts and pictures and videos. But I don not like the layout. It doesn't look "neat". I am aware of the problem of colloboration- 2 people canot work on the same page because the changes made by one of them will be deleted. However I do not need to worry about that as I am working individually.

As you can see here is what we get when we click on "Add Widget".
We can choose to add bookmarks, videos, sticky note(which is really a text box), rich text sticky note(which is embedding a video), weather and many more.

Also we can alway edit the colour of the sticky note by clicking on "edit" which is on the sticky note.

This is how to change the colour settings of the whole webpage. When we click on colours/settings on the top right hand corner of the webpage, we get a box like this.

So my overall summary of protopage is that it is fairly versatile(sticky notes) and extremely easy to use but what worries me the level of its layout qualities and how it will work after i've published the webpage.

SUMMARY:
I have to firstly comment on the ease of use. This is because as soon as I go on protopage.com, I begin editing the page. This makes it very easy to use. It works on the same principle as the Wix and Jimdo, you click on the object you want to edit and a range of options are available. I think that visitors to a crowded protopage will get lost because of the amount of information/widget on the first page. However I need to have the skill of limiting the amount of information I put on my page. To be honest, I think all of the websites are good – we just need to use it correctly and will get the same result.


It is very versatile because it allows me to add bookmarks, comment boxes, weather, clocks (analogue or digital) etc… You click on add a widget, and then if you wanted to have a look at every widget you can click on it and you can see a sample. If you are completely satisfied with it, then you can drag it onto your page. The colour settings button not only allows you to change the font and colour of the page but also allows you to change the wallpaper or background of your page.

MULTIMEDIA ASSESSMENT TASK

We got our assignment today. We have to make a multimedia presentation about multimedia!
Today we were supposed to evaluate on the different kinds of online tools that we can use to make a multimedia presentation. we had an overview of how to use Wix.

I chose to do the Multimedia assessment task by myself. This was because it seemed like the there was no point in a group. People still had to do the same amount of work and link all of their pages together. I would also not take the risk of collaboration problems- incase my work will be ov erwritten by by partner(s).

The World of Multimedia on Prezi