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My first comment is HERE.

So that little experiment didn’t turn out quite as I’d planned. I guess the .htm doc functions more like an attachment than an actual web page. Oh well, just giving it a try…

I thought the section on multimedia was particularly helpful. The breakdown of info about the three formats will certainly be useful. I had no idea that RealMedia has the poorest sound quality. Many people in music would be want to know that! This is another example of all of the planning that must go into a site. I find myself wanting to rush ahead and start making, but, as each chapter in Digital History reminds us, there are some big questions we have to ask ourselves first: what’s already out there, audience, use, server and funding , to name a few. It’s very tempting to think about layout and colors and the fun stuff you can add to the site, but these, it has become clear after our readings, are really just fluff.

I seem to have a lot of questions each week. Mine for this week, that I hope we can answer in class is: XTML? I’m not quite sure I understand the difference between it and a database. XTML certainly sounds preferable, but is that only because it doesn’t require a database program? I see you can also save Word docs as .xml…but is that the normal route to take for making an XML…uh…I don’t even know if “document” is the right word?

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