Hi readers, wie geht es Ihnen?

Tonight I'm not gonna to publish a long post. ):

This is basically another task from Human-Computer Interaction course about how to visualize content to be easily understandable  by user.

I'm visualizing data from bps.go.id about AIDS cases and its mortality in Indonesia by year of 2008 to 2011.

"But Fariz, why it has to be data about AIDS?"

Lemme tell ya honey, I'm actually a medical student who found myself majoring in Computer Science. Since I love talking about health problem and diagnosing people, this data I found surprisingly suited my hobby :)

Created with infogr.am, here's the result. 
And don't forget to read my blog so I can be more popular than the plastic. Love y'all, peace buhbye

AIDS Cases and Mortality in Indonesia By 2008-2011 | Create infographics

Fariz Keynes

Hey guys, it's me, Fariz A-gain #yeaaah!!! *crowd gets louder*

Okay, enough for it. 

Today I'll be focusing my post to Data Communication and Computer Network subject, specified to Terminal, and fyi we're not going to talk about terminal like bus station, airport, but we're gonna be talking about terminal as one of computer interface, a command line interface.

Terminal is one of command line interface in computer. It exists in OS X and Linux, and maybe other OSes. For those Windows user, you don't have terminal on your system, but instead you'll have CMD. But don't worry, it's a same thing as terminal with a different command of course.

Terminal can do many things. Most of the things, actually. Like you can copy/move files, create directories, set up your computer, install/remove packages, and even download files. And for the sake of time, let's skip to the part where we can download files from network to our computer using a simple command called wget.

wget is the non-interactive network downloader.
here's some description abot this command:

      GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
       the Web.  It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
       retrieval through HTTP proxies.

       Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background,
       while the user is not logged on.  This allows you to start a retrieval
       and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work.  By
       contrast, most of the Web browsers require constant user's presence,
       which can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

       Wget can follow links in HTML, XHTML, and CSS pages, to create local
       versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure
       of the original site.  This is sometimes referred to as "recursive
       downloading."  While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion
       Standard (/robots.txt).  Wget can be instructed to convert the links in
       downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing.

       Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
       connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep
       retrying until the whole file has been retrieved.  If the server
       supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the
       download from where it left off.

P.S I honestly didn't read (and want to read) that.

In terminal, we also have syntaxes and options and here's how you do it when using wget:

wget [option]... [URL]...
 

Is it too long to read? well let's download something, shall we?

I am going to download this jam from 1993 (wow, I haven't even been born yet) by Michael Bolton...

Downloading using wget

Command line shows a simple information. In this wget case, you can get the download progress, download speed and also (one of my favourite feature) an eta (Estimated Time of Arrival) :)

When you press Enter, it refreshes you current download status. But you don't have to do that because it automatically shows the current progress.

Enter pressed 4 times

 And when your download is finished, you can get message like this:

 2015-03-25 11:05:20 (17,4 KB/s) - ‘5755d.mp3’ saved [6262332/6262332]

Download finished

There's more things you can do with wget, but I think I'm not gonna doo dee detail it in this post. You can add options on your downloaded file by using the syntax I mentioned before. and you can get the option code using this command in your terminal field:

man wget

And yeah, that's one of my long post about computer stuff. Thank you for reading such a long boring post about this subject.

And don't forget to read my blog so I can be more popular than the plastic. Love y'all, peace buhbye *wink wink*

Fariz Keynes

Oh kay, this is my first post of Human-Computer Interaction assignment.

The intro

We, as bloggers of course often go to websites looking for… yeah, many things. But you might (at least once) notice that there’s a website that just simply easy to use and navigate to look the information for, and there’s one website that can make you feel like “Ugh, where can I find that post?” or “This stupid web owner doesn’t even know how to mix colors, it’s hurting my eyes” and “I can’t read those posts because I have half color blind, and the text is not contrast”.

Yeah, we definitely have gone through that probs. And luckily for you guys, bloggers, readers, or anyone who’s interested in designing websites or webpages, I’m gonna give y’all some points for you to notice.

1. Usability
2. Navigation
3. Graphic Design
4. Contents
5. Compatibility
6. Loading Time
7. Accessibility, and
8. Interactivity

I am going to use this website as an example (whether it’s good or not-really-good-and-need-some-improvements)

www.houzz.com

Houzz started with a house. It’s what is written on the page. The founder, Adi and Alon, built this site because they wanted to remodel their home. They started reading stack of magazines and referrals for home professionals. But those ways failed to make their dream a reality. ‘Kay, cut the cr*p already, here’s the analysis.

USABILITY

The homepage

Houzz is a website for home remodeling and design, bringing homeowners and home professionals together in a community. You can find any home ideas, room ideas, and you can even ask for consult with home professionals. It’s great, isn’t it? I’ll give 9/10 for the ideas.

NAVIGATION

The navbar

Search feature

Houzz has pretty useful navigation bar. You can easily find any room ideas in the navigation bar. Just hover your mouse on it and voila, you can have every detailed about the room. Also, the search bar has many features so you can easily jump to your preferred section. And it’s 9.2/10 for me.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

It’s all white, simple, with beautiful font selection. The only colorful thing in this website is the photo. They shot adorable photo ideas. And it’s eye catching. 8.8/10 for this one.

CONTENT

Don't tell me this site is useless, cause it's not, really. This site will help you build your dream house. 9.0/10.

COMPATIBILITY

Houzz works perfectly on today's screen resolution. I guess you need javascript enabled first and you can get the animations. Sadly, this site isn't really responsive for mobile viewing. Look at this screenshot below:

Mobile viewing

But don't worry fellow, you can get the mobile application of this website which is available for both Android and iOS. Well, maybe it's 7.0/10.

LOADING TIME

Fella, please understand that you're accessing full-image content website. So, it really does take time to open this site up. Unless you have better internet connection. :)

I'm giving 8.4/10

ACCESSIBILITY

Houzz doesn't really provide good design for people with disability. For example, the text color and size of course match with the white background, but it doesn't provide good contrast for those who have eye disability, like old people. Maybe it's 7.7/10.

INTERACTIVITY

Houzz provide an impressive animations. The first thing you'll notice is that there's a slideshow photos on the homepage. You can see how beautiful the transition between photos. The text changes color when you hover your mouse on it.

When you scroll down the page, you'll see the navbar sliding up out (disappear) and when you hover back your mouse,  the navbar will come sliding down again, and it's quite beautiful. For those points, I'll give it 9.5/10.

(end of the analysis)

I'm calculating... (beep, beep, beep)

From those numbers, I'll give Houzz

8.5/10

Adi and Alon, do deserve credits for the idea, but the website designer deserves more credits, applause, and any good things because (s)he can provide an efficient way for users to interact with the site without having any problem (tested on me, as the user).

Houzz is a great example for building a good website.

P.S. I love the content so much :*

P.S.S. I also have commented on several fellow bloggers too, like Eylien Desy Novita's, Utari Ambarwati's, and Ihsan Fikrie's

Thank you so much for reading a such a long post for me :') (it's gonna make my day, ya know)

And don't forget to read my blog so I can be more popular than the plastic. Love y'all, peace buhbye :*

Fariz Keynes