- The Jet Database Server is installed when you install Access. Whenever you open Access the database server starts. Access can also connect to SQL Server and a few other databases, but Jet is the default.
Wednesday 22 May 2013
How an online database works.
This will go over how Microsoft Access databases work, this is the database software that I have been using to create databases so I will go over in detail what happens when a database is created.
Microsoft Access has many of the same componants of a regular database application, and one big difference. Access is designed to install and run all of the components on a single computer.
Access can work with remote database such as SQL Server, but is normally used as a package on a single computer using its own database.
The Access application server is called Form View.
The Access developer modules for forms, tables, etc. are called Design Views.
The modules are so closely integrated that most people don't realize that there are several different modules.
Microsoft Access is not as easy to share with other users as separate applications and databases, but it is possible to build complex and sophisticated applications with Access, especially if the application runs against a SQL Server database, these will work very well for a website that stores a lot of passwords and accont details such as Amazon.
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Entertainment, Radio, Muti-User games.
Entertainment has changed a lot over the past years, especially entertainment typically found on the internet, many websites have been set up to provide movies and tv shows to be watched online. One of these websites is 4od, the purpose of this website is to show any tv show that was shown on channel 4 for those who may have missed it.
The website is easily accessed, it only requires a free account to start watching tv shows and movies. Advertisements are quite common on this website, which is to be expected considering it is a free service.
Other website similar to this one is Netflix, Netflix allows users to pay a monthly fee of around £6 to watch any movie on the site, there is no limit to the amount of movies you can view, it even includes most new movies.
It allows you a free one month trial to see if you like the service, and after that if you continue to use the service it will charge you £5.99 a month.
These are just a couple of the many sites that offer movies and tv shows that were only previously available on the TV, watching movies and tv shows on a computer of mobile device has become increadibly easy and the popularity of such services has grown in the past few years.
Online Radio.
There are many online radio services but the most popular of which is BBC iPlayer, this website allows you to listen to live radio, as well as listen to radio from earlier which would be otherwise impossible to listen to.
This website doesn't require a log in, or any kind of payment to use the service, it is generally easy to navigate and find what you want. Although you are able to create an account which will allow you to get updates on tv shows and radio shows on your email. It will also allow you to comment on certain radio shows.
And that is just a few of the many websites that allow you to watch and listen to radio and tv shows/movies, the growing popularity of such sites are now making them very popular and easy to use, even being able to access them on you phone is a new feature that has proved very popular.
Other website similar to this one is Netflix, Netflix allows users to pay a monthly fee of around £6 to watch any movie on the site, there is no limit to the amount of movies you can view, it even includes most new movies.
These are just a couple of the many sites that offer movies and tv shows that were only previously available on the TV, watching movies and tv shows on a computer of mobile device has become increadibly easy and the popularity of such services has grown in the past few years.
Online Radio.
This website doesn't require a log in, or any kind of payment to use the service, it is generally easy to navigate and find what you want. Although you are able to create an account which will allow you to get updates on tv shows and radio shows on your email. It will also allow you to comment on certain radio shows.
And that is just a few of the many websites that allow you to watch and listen to radio and tv shows/movies, the growing popularity of such sites are now making them very popular and easy to use, even being able to access them on you phone is a new feature that has proved very popular.
Thursday 9 May 2013
Ebook Evaluation
In order to create my Ebook I used Adobe Dreamweaver as it is an easy application to use and proved very helpful with the problems I encountered during the making of the website.
Target Audience & Purpose of the Ebook.
The target audience for my Ebook is those who wish to see what technology was like at the time of creating it, as technology is rapidly changing, this gives a good representation of what it was like to create a website, and also gives a lot of information on the current age of technology. The three categories I have in my Ebook each show a different area of technology in the world, from advancements in mobile technology to the digital divide which neglects many countries of any kind of technology.
Problems I faced while creating the Ebook.
While developing my Ebook I ran into multiple problems, most of which I was able to resolve by correcting errors in the html code, the main problem I had was the positioning of my banner that was supposed to span the top of the page, a lot of the time it wasn't centred and so to fix this I simple put the code <div align="centre"> at the end of the html code for the image. Another problem that I faced was that the web page was too large, it needed to be smaller for it to work correctly as an Ebook, I fixed this by adding a footer to the web page and limiting the height it could be. Problems with hyperlinks were also a major problem for a while, after creating a new page I had to rework the hyperlinks on that page to work with the files I was using, this was generally easy to fix but was time consuming.
How my Ebook designed.
My Ebook is designed in such a way that you can never get lost and navigation is fairly simple. On the home page there is a description of how to navigate. To the right of the page are 4 categories which are: Life in the information age, The Digital Divide, Online services and Ebook. Clicking on one will take you to a series of links which you can navigate by clicking the "Next" button at the bottom of the page, to get back to the home page you can either click home or click on the banner, you are able to get to access all of the categories and the homepage from anywhere on the Ebook by simply clicking on the side navigation bar.
What can be improved?
The main problem I see with my Ebook is that it is not very eye catching, I didn't have time to fully design the style of the page and so I had to focus of functionality of the website over the look and style of it. Another improvement that could be made would be the ability to access posts in a category from the home page instead of having to click on the category and then cycle through the posts in order to find the one you are looking for, once again this was a problem with my time management and I wasn't able to include this feature in time.
Target Audience & Purpose of the Ebook.
The target audience for my Ebook is those who wish to see what technology was like at the time of creating it, as technology is rapidly changing, this gives a good representation of what it was like to create a website, and also gives a lot of information on the current age of technology. The three categories I have in my Ebook each show a different area of technology in the world, from advancements in mobile technology to the digital divide which neglects many countries of any kind of technology.
Problems I faced while creating the Ebook.
While developing my Ebook I ran into multiple problems, most of which I was able to resolve by correcting errors in the html code, the main problem I had was the positioning of my banner that was supposed to span the top of the page, a lot of the time it wasn't centred and so to fix this I simple put the code <div align="centre"> at the end of the html code for the image. Another problem that I faced was that the web page was too large, it needed to be smaller for it to work correctly as an Ebook, I fixed this by adding a footer to the web page and limiting the height it could be. Problems with hyperlinks were also a major problem for a while, after creating a new page I had to rework the hyperlinks on that page to work with the files I was using, this was generally easy to fix but was time consuming.
How my Ebook designed.
My Ebook is designed in such a way that you can never get lost and navigation is fairly simple. On the home page there is a description of how to navigate. To the right of the page are 4 categories which are: Life in the information age, The Digital Divide, Online services and Ebook. Clicking on one will take you to a series of links which you can navigate by clicking the "Next" button at the bottom of the page, to get back to the home page you can either click home or click on the banner, you are able to get to access all of the categories and the homepage from anywhere on the Ebook by simply clicking on the side navigation bar.
What can be improved?
The main problem I see with my Ebook is that it is not very eye catching, I didn't have time to fully design the style of the page and so I had to focus of functionality of the website over the look and style of it. Another improvement that could be made would be the ability to access posts in a category from the home page instead of having to click on the category and then cycle through the posts in order to find the one you are looking for, once again this was a problem with my time management and I wasn't able to include this feature in time.
Tuesday 7 May 2013
Amazon: Setting up account.
I will go through the steps you need to take in order to set up an account on Amazon. The first step to doing this is to click on the "Sign in to your account" button in the top right hand corner of the screen.
Once on the page you will be prompted whether you have an Amazon account or not, if you don't then it gives you the option to create one. You will need to enter your email adress and then click the "okay" button.
After you will get a conformation email to confirm that the linked email adress is really yours, once you click on that then your account will be functional. You will be sent to your account page where you can access all your orders and depending on what type of account you've made, you can also sell items as well.
Once on the page you will be prompted whether you have an Amazon account or not, if you don't then it gives you the option to create one. You will need to enter your email adress and then click the "okay" button.
The diagram above shows the process which the website goes through when an account is made, and how an account works and functions, orders being processed are also shown.
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