HTML5 & Ogg video

Last year Ms. Kate mentioned we'd have to display our practical coursework on a custom website, and that the deisgn of the website could form part of the coursework. As before I'm still enthusiastic about open standards and I've tried a few experiments in implementing them. If the IT department doesn't allow us hosting it might be quite difficult, that's something we can come to later.

Facebook experiment conclusion

Over the last few weeks 17 days I've been running a Facebook advertising campaign pointing to this blog, now that it's over and I've run out of advertising credit I can go over the final statistics.

Hello Facebook!

I'm testing out Facebook ads at the moment, and I'm seeing what can be done to them, currently there's an advert pointing towards this blog. So if you're coming in from Facebook, firstly welcome, and secondly I'll set up Google Analytics some time this week so I can measure the incoming traffic from this end.
Also now Facebook has my credit card details. I am not happy about this, given their past record on privacy I don't trust them at all.

EDIT: Just noticed that the ad is 'pending review', because I targeted it at under 18s. Whoops. Still it just shows the power of Social Media advertising; I can specify the exact location, gender and age of my target audience, that's pretty nifty.

EDIT 02: Checked now and the ad is live. Success!

Newspapers are unaccountable and innacurate.

I'm supposed to be covering research for trailers however a quick glance at my feeds shows that Matty's the only one who's written anything yet. Jonny started a new blog but I don't know the url. I could find out quite easily, but that's for another time, what I want to write about here is how the newspaper model is unaccountable and inaccurate. I rediscovered Angry Mob's new site today and was reading this story.

Music for pre-lim task cleared.

This is an intermediary post to say that I've finished my evaluation, as a Vlog, if that's okay, it's uploading at the moment and will be on my channel in 5 hours or so. It's better than my previous vlogs because I went back to my previous practice of meticulously editing out all the 'um's, 'ah's and anything else I didn't want. This was because I also returned to my previous practice of converting my video from my camcorder in MP4 format to DivX format as soon as I got them onto the computer (I have the DivX converter, and more surprisingly I got it totally legally and paid for it with actual money). MP4 files don't work well with MoviePlus X3, I might download the 3ivX codec to fix that sometime.

DISQUS

This post is about the DISQUS commenting system I've stuck on here. I originally saw it on @garrynewman's blog, then on @graemehunter's blog. Seeing as it's a new trend I'll get ahead while I can before the major blogs kick into action.

Favicons & labels

Admittedly this doesn't come under schoolwork because it wasn't actually set. I spent the last hour or so messing around with the favicons on both blogs. They're hosted on my rented server and here they are in 96x96 PNG format:

Pirate favicon. Represents my commitment to piracy. It's also a bit of fun.

Layouts

I've spent the past few days piddling around with blog layouts (on new blog) after having bought server space and a domain and trying to get stuff to work. I have drawn up the following observations: