The Fourth

When everyone is a blogger, everyone is in the newspapers...



Where is the fine line between a blogger-nerd-teenager with spots spending most of his time writing on his blog and a journalist who publishes his articles online?
Newspapers have had to evolve in order to remain up to date. Writing about current topics quickly became unsufficient to be trendy.
Newspapers look old, they're history even for their own writers, we get our fingers all black and spending money on a subscription is less and less a priority.

And then came blogs.

Blogs are easy to access, attractive and anyone can have one. It is free, we can read hundreds of articles a dayy without having a pile of newspapers sitting next to our bed.

The problem is the content.

As everyone is free to post anything, it becomes harder to to tell fact from fiction. We have all read doubtful stories and have yet thought it could be true.

Can internet kill the press? Has it? Will it?

Journalists have had to evolve to still be read. A lot of jobs were lost, people fired and less papers have been printed. Newspapers created their own websites, with news online, videos for some, pictures most of the time. But the problem of cost remained for some. Indeed, when a blog is free to access, a newspapers' website can ask its readers to pay to access its content.

The profession of journalist became less estimated as everyone got the idea that, they could do it too.

The third

I would like to talk about dreamweaver. Dreamweaver, the magician for someone like me, who, knows a lot about internet but feels a bit poorer when it comes to "creating what's ON internet".

We had to create a web page, and having worked as a blogger, I had a little knowledge of html codes. This little knowledge made me feel as if I knew so much more in reality. FALSE.
Before I started to create my web page, I was a bit anxious because of all the codes and vocabulary associated to HTML. I soon understood that nerds created this language to impress society; it worked.

Dreamweaver appeared to me as a solution to "show off with not much". Thanks to a few tips you gave us, I understood that I could "steal" someone's template and build my own page according to what I stole. I first tried and create my page on my own, with a desire to be independent. After a few attempts, I realized that what was in my head was a bit more complicated than what I was able to do with the skills I have. I turned to internet, but I'll come back to that in a few lines.
First, columns(and this is good because it's what we're going to talk about next class). I tried to get my text in the middle, right in the middle, and justified, not too much on the right or left side. It took me a while, eventhough I'm sure there's an easy way to do that.
I also wanted something a bit more personal, for example: this blog. I like the title of the blog, the way it's designed and the general layout.





It doesn't look like any random blog.

I think in the end dreaweaver really helped me get comfortable with creating web pages. It is easy and very often, intuitive. For example, to add a link, we only have to click on the "link" button on the right side. And as this works with different things, it becomes easier to create a page that looks like one.

I also used tutorials on internet to understand things such as adding an anchor link. I first had to understand what it was. I found useful websites explaining simple things, with non-nerd words.

In the end I know my page could be better, but I am proud of it for a first web page.
I promise the next one will be better!