Project 2 Layout.

This website will teach users how to clean computers step by step. The purpose of the site is to help people save money and teach them how to clean computers. The audience of the site will attract everyday users, but it might benefit experienced users.

Many competition sites help users to clean their computers and also offer step-by-step tips:

1. “Microsoft at home” 
1.  http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/cleancomputer.aspx#fbid=5YZYg5wpd-I?fbig=35yH675octC
2.  Speed up your PC: automate your computer maintenance schedule.

1. www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/maintenance.aspx#fbid=5YZYg5wpd-Icopy
2. “Cleaning Windows XP for Dummies”

1. www.dummies.com/how-to/content/cleaning-windows-xp-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html
3. Optimize Windows 7 for better performance.

1. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Optimize-Windows-7-for-better-performance
4. "Let's Dance” 

1. http://securitytango.com/

 Microsoft at home (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/cleancomputer.aspx#fbid=5YZYg5wpd-I?fbig=35yH675octC) offers tips on how to clean your computer’s hardware. I like how Microsoft at home goes into details and systematically shows how to take it apart and correctly clean the hardware without damaging it. I will discuss some of their ideas on maintaining the computer without being overcharged by an average computer store. The only thing I did not like about the site is that they do not offer a visual aid for those needing a picture or an illustration. Microsoft Home’s audience is those who like to take things apart and save money. The experience level doesn’t necessarily have to be great to follow Microsoft at home’s directions; however, for setting up the automatic task scheduler, the audience must know about using Windows operating systems. www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/maintenance.aspx#fbid=5YZYg5wpd-Icopy . I aim to demonstrate how to set up the automatic task scheduler via video. If this goes successfully, the user will not need to remember doing disk cleanups, disk defragmentation, CCleaner, and Spybot Search and Destroy.

The “Optimize Windows 7 for better performance” (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Optimize-Windows-7-for-better-performance ) site discusses optimizing Windows 7 for those who want performance over Looks. This site is well written and easy to understand, so the audience should be able to follow along very easily. Again, my thoughts are that the site can improve by adding videos and pictures for those who need a visual aid.

Let’s Dance (http://securitytango.com/) is a site created by YNN’s computer technician, Nick Francesco, or the computer guy. It offers a systematic way to clean your computers. Nick’s site has four links, each representing how to clean that operating system, under the “Let’s dance!” button, the second link on the navigation bar.

• The Windows waltz is for Windows operating systems
• The Linux Lambada is for Linux operating systems. 
• The Android Allemende is for Android operating systems.
•  The Macarena you are for Intel-based Macintosh operating systems. 

The security tango is overall a well-written site; however, Nick Francisco has not updated some of his missions on his site for three years. Like Microsoft at home, Tango’s website should use visual aids to improve security for those with trouble reading. The audience for security tango is above-average users who want to save money. The reason is that Nick isn’t clear on what to do when you dance (cleaning your computer).

My site’s audience is aimed at those who have trouble reading, seeing words, and being visual learners. The audiences for these five sites should be able to read this page for project two.

After reading all five links above, this site will provide some tips, step-by-step instructions, and advice. Creating a video tutorial will help those who have trouble reading the content. 

 The software that I am going to use is a screengrab program called Tasia Screen Recorder, along with a virtual machine running Windows 7 (Oracle VirtualBox) on a Macintosh computer as the host, and finally, text-to-speech software (TextAloud).  

Week One Readings

15th January 2013 Week One:

When I read “The Read-Write Web - Technology that Makes We the Media Possible” from chapter two of a book called We the Media - 2. The Read-Write Web (by Dan Gillmor) discusses a vision of making the read/write web pages. From the early and mid-nineties, websites were mainly read-only. The vision was to make it more feasible for a web developer like the guy in this story, who pointed out a visionary of making a weblog-based website. There are four common ways to get and retrieve information from the weblog:

• Wiki:
• It is a site where users can alter information based on commenting or disagreeing.
• Rich Site Summary or RSS:
• Get the contents of a subscriber’s blogs.
• Peer-to-Peer or P2P:
• is a server or client-based node that shares files among computers. 
• Short message services
• allow users to send messages to other people without using a PC. 

When I read “The Business Value of Web Standards” <http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/e000266>  I learned that making a website with multiple HTML files with one CSS file. Following this procedure can reduce bandwidth usage, the time needed to update the site, and the cost of hosting the site. 

When I read “Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!” by Jeffrey Zeldman (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/>), I realized some rules need to be followed. It’s very important to abide by the required document-type rules. Otherwise, the website will run in Quirks mode*.

* According to the “Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!” article, the quirks mode is the browser’s assumptions that run in old-fashioned, invalid markup and code per the depressing industry norms of the late 1990s

• Here is a website that goes into more detail about doc types: http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/doctype.html 

 Part two: (the right post)

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000002791 StartFragment:0000000663 EndFragment:0000002775 -->

From reading the “5 Reasons Why You Can Use HTML5 Today” article by Craig Buckler, the article discussed five good reasons for using HTML5 and CSS3 instead of the old HTML and CSS format. The first reason was that most newer browsers can support HTML5,   except the old Internet Explorer browsers. A few tweaks will do the trick for the information part; however, the site’s look will be bad. The second reason is that HTML5 is a predecessor of HTML4/XHTML 1.0, so HTML5 has 26 additional tags. The third reason the specification of HTML5 will never be completed is that W3C currently has no restrictions set for the browser vendors to follow. As stated in reason number one, the fourth reason is that most new common browsers (including Internet Explorer 9 and 10) support HTML5. Most people are adapting the HTML5-based web page for various reasons. The fifth reason for average users is that HTML5-based websites are new. Apple iPads and iPods can run them and play HTML5-based videos without problems.

From reading the article “HTML vs. XHTML* on standards compliant websites” by Sean Fraser and “HTML or XHTML?” by Robert Nyman, both articles discussed the discoveries about HTML vs. XHTML. Here are a few things that both articles mention about using the strict HTML 4. XHTML 1.0 and 2.0 are not backward compatible. If XHTML 4.0 strict is used as application/xhtml+xml, Internet Explorer will not work. HTML5 is backward compatible



* According to “HTML or XHTML?” An XHTML document is a document that has to be well-formed according to the rules of XML.