I chose to work on Blogs because I did not know what they were before this class. I went from not knowing what they were to creating one of my own.
My first draft was rough. I have since then added a heading with colored text and subheadings with colored text to organize my page better. I broke up my definition of blogs into a bulleted list to break up the chunkiness of that paragraph and increase its readability, as suggested in the hot text readings.
I decided to add a link to Lindsay's FTP page in my how blogs work section so the reader could understand the FTP process better.
I changed the wording of some of the sentences to make them clearer. I moved the screen shot of a blog down a couple of lines instead of being flush with the text in order to improve the spacial appearance.
I changed the citation to the one supplied by the article because I did not notice it when I wrote my first draft and it contained some information that I did not know. This created several lined boxes in between my text and the citation. I went into the source and figured out how to remove the extra boxes in between the text and citation and I also moved the text and citation closer together to decrease the large amount of empty white space.
My background research consisted of my work on producing my own blog in our first project for the class and reviewing the "How stuff works" cite (several pages) and some You Tube presentations as well.
The relaxed language I used was for the audience of future students taking these writing course. I tried to explain things in a simple conversational tone instead of a formal technical tone. I felt this would be understand better by future students. I did include a definition of blogs because I am a student and did not know what they were and I found that many students (English majors in particular) don't use the internet alot for social networking purposes.
I encountered some challenges with my revising. I had a hard time finding information for my bridge page. I had a hard time editing my page because the markup was different than what we have been learning in the book. I did figure out how to remove the boxes though. I wanted to remove some of the white space after the image of the screen shot. There is too much empty space before the text continues. I did not know if the margin and padding commands will work on the wike source because it looks so different from the html we have been using.
Lostblog Preservation
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