Athene, Rss and Counters

Firstly Athene-

Our Athene accounts are hosted by CSU, they area website that we each have created personally on IWeb and then uploaded onto the web.
IWeb is very basic and their are a lot of things that I don't really understand- for example how do you customise the templates and stuff? I have changed all of the page elements and the general layout but how do you customise the background colour etc? I'm so confused...

In order to upload the IWeb documents onto the internet we use FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The purpose of FTP is to transfer data reliably and effectively, to allow hosts to various hosts the power to upload and change the site from remote locations and also to promote the concept of file sharing- as primarily in remote hosting, file sharing is the key concept in hosting a website.
This can serve many positives as you can access the site from anywhere in the world using a FTP Program such as Fetch- BUT - you also do need every file and folder created when publishing the site uploaded to the server in order for the site to run and operate to the way in which you designed it.
A negative in FTP is that with a small program called ‘Packetsniffer’ anyone’s personal information or data uploaded using the FTP can be altered, manipulated or stolen. This can be prevented by using more complicated versions of FTP, these include SFTP or FTPS.

You can access my Athene account here



Counter and RSS-

A few weeks ago we added counters to our blogs and iWeb pages. The reason for counters on sites is to see the amount of people that visit the site and on more advanced counters you can even check the amount of times they have visited. Counters work on the users IP address, and can monitor the amount of times data and information built into the website is transferred to that particular IP address.
We also added RSS feeds to our blogs and to our IWeb accounts, this seems like a really good idea, especially for keeping up to date with things like the MPI104 blog and some of my favourite webcomics- these and more can be seen in the RSS feed that I have on the right hand side of the page----->