Project 2 Layout.

The topic of this website will be step by step how to clean the computer. The purpose of making this site will help people to save money and teach them how to clean the computers. The audience of the site will attract everyday users but it might benefit the experience users.

Many competition sites help users to clean their computers and also offers step-by-step and 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 Dances" 

1. http://securitytango.com/

 The Microsoft at home (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/cleancomputer.aspx#fbid=5YZYg5wpd-I?fbig=35yH675octC), offers tips and how to clean your computer's hardware.  I like how Microsoft at home goes in to details and systematic how to take it apart and correctly cleaning the hardware without damaging it in the process. I am going to talk about some of their ideas how to maintain the computer without being overcharged by average computer store. The only thing that I did not like about the site is they do not offer a visual aid for those who need picture or illustration. The audience for Microsoft home is for those who like to take things apart and save money. The experience level doesn't necessary have to be great in order to follow the Microsoft at home's directions; however, for setting up automatic task scheduler the audience needs to have some knowledge of using Windows operating systems. www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/maintenance.aspx#fbid=5YZYg5wpd-Icopy . My objectives are to demonstrate setting up 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 ) talks about how to optimize Windows 7 for those who want performance over Looks. This site is well written and easy to understand so the audience should be able follow along very easily. Again, my thoughts the site can improve on by adding videos and pictures for those who need a visual aid.

Let's Dances (http://securitytango.com/) is a site created by YNN's computer technician Nick Francesco or computer guy for short. This site offers systematic how to clean your computers. Nick's site has four different links each represent how to clean that that particular operating systems 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 Androids Allemende is for Androids operating systems.
•  The Macarena you are for Intel-based Macintosh's operating systems. 

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

The audience for my site is aim at those who have trouble reading, see the words, and visual learner. The audiences for these five sites should be able read this page for project two.

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

 The software that I am going to use are screen capture recording software called Camtasia screen recorder, the virtual machine with Windows XP and Windows 7 installed (Oracle Virtualbox)  with a working Macintosh computer as a 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 from a book called We the Media - 2. The Read-Write Web (by Dan Gillmor)  talks about a vision of making the read/write web pages. From the early and the mid  nineties, websites were mainly a read only.  The vision was to make more feasible for a web developer like the guy in this story pointed out a visionary of making a weblog base website.  There are four common ways to get and retrieve information from the weblog:

• Wiki:
• is a site that 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 share files among one  computer to another. 
• Short message services
• is a way that users can send a message to other people with out 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.  By following this procedure can reduce the bandwidth usage, the time of updating the site, and reduce 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/>  there are some sets of rules that need to be followed.  It's very important to abide the required doc-type rules.  If not the website will run in Quirks mode*.

* according to the "Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!" article, the quirks mode is the browsers assumes to run in old-fashioned, invalid markup and code per the depressing industry norms of the late 1990

• Here is a website that goes more in details 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, talked about five good reasons of using HTML5 and CSS3 instead of using an old HTML and CSS format.the first reason was 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 look of the site will be bad. The second reason was 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 means that W3C currently does not have any restrictions set for the browser vendors to follow. The fourth reason like stated in reason number one most new common browsers (include Internet Explorer 9 and 10) supports the HTML5. Most people are adapting the HTML5 based web page for varies of reasons. The fifth reason for average users, HTML5 based websites is new thing for them. Apple iPads and iPods can run them and play html5-based videos without any problems.

From reading the “HTML vs. XHTML* on standards compliant websites” article by Sean Fraser and “HTML or XHTML?” article by Robert Nyman. Both articles talked about the discoveries about HTML vs. XHTML. Here is few things that both articles mention that using the strict HTML4 strict. XHTML 1.0 and 2.0 are not backward compilable. If XHTML 4.0 strict are used as application/xhtml+xml the Internet Explorer will not work. HTML5 is a backward compilable.



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