Friday, February 16, 2007

Introduction to Multimedia and Hypertext

The principal purpose of this Multima course is to introduce basic historical and technical information concerning multimedia, hypermedia and hypertext. It's mainly theoretical, but Olli Raatikainen - the teacher presents also practical applications, what make the course more clear and more interesting.

Today I went to university for the lecture from that course.
The topic was "www-the biggest hypertext system to date". We learned what are the main rules of writing texts and than how to move it to www. We have to make a new dimension of the text to make users feeling as moving in the hyper space, eg. like in imaginary city. After putting the text to www it's very important to test it. What is more, pictures and links play a relevant role on www. Pictures help us to understand hypertext's structures and links make text more advanced (if there is a lot of links text become not only one chanel of distibution).

The lecture was interesting, because the things which we learned are very important. I have never made my own webpage, but now - after the lecture I know the basics and I can try (not today, but some day...). Wish me luck :p

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