WEEK 10 GROUP REPORT
Hey, kids. What can I tell you? You are about to witness the phenomenon known as
my Week 10 Group Report (trumpets blare). Ok, for this week I took a look at home
page
help junk, specifically, homepage tricks and tips (that's what I typed in as my query). I used the search engines Lycos and Galaxy and found some interesting stuff (interesting
being a relative term).
First Lycos and my findings there.
The first document I looked at was called Cytopia Tips &
Tricks. Alrighty,
another tool of commerce, they are selling stuff,
it's an ad. This stuff is pretty
straight-forward and not terribly
interesting (they were more into soliciting tips and tricks). Again in
terms of social psychology, helping others, assisting others
(to get you
to buy their stuff).
The next thing I took a look at was called the Tips Page. This page was full
of keyboard shortcuts that the lovely people who put up these homepages use. For
example
hitting control s might unfreeze your Mac and save your data. and other
tricks like this (although I don't really know what those other things really do). Check
it out. There really was no narrative style to speak of, just a short paragraph
and a table with the commands and the function and the Mac system that they work
for. More helping for the social psychology aspect (these are all help stuff though, so bear
with me). This page didn't seem to have any software peddling attached so, that
makes it more of a labor of love deal.
On to the stuff I found on
Galaxy. The first thing I looked at was called the James
Burns Homepage. Mr. Burns is a graphic designer and this homepage is for him
to
present himself and the topics that interest him. I guess what he
does is write
articles on different subjects and posts them. This time
he wrote about what you need to create
your own 3-D graphics. Quite
interesting and written in an easy to read manner.
Definitly and aspect of self-presentation and helping others involved (see I came
up with a different reason). If anyone's interested in 3-D graphics, check it out.
The last thing I took a lo
ok at was not related but, to put it plainly, damn funny.
The Rubber Stamping Page.
Hey, who knew. Check out the latest tricks and tips in rubber stamping, stores in
the city you are visitin
g, new and creative ideas, addresses of rubber stamping companies,
and reviews of rubber stamping books. Only for the hardcore rubber stampers out there.
I hope you all know that I'm merely amused by this and not attacking rubber stamping
(it's a hob
by like any other), I don't want any angry e-mail from pturbed rubber
stampers now. In relation to social psychology, rubber stamping connects all these
different people across our great nation and is a means for
people to relate to one
another (cool another different reason).
Ok, in conclusion, that's it go home already. You darn kids (as
prefaced by "and
I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for
you...).