Final Project in Dreamweaver

Hello Blog Buddies,

Believe it or not I actually have a few thoughts about the final project. First of all I have to mention the thing I liked most which was the time I was able to spend with Stephanie Walls who provided me with many of the pictures and most of the content information for the page. I spent several hours on the phone, emailing and at her home interviewing her and taking a lot of pictures of her holding snakes and lizards. I was warned while she was handling the snakes to NOT react if one BIT her! Yeah right! None of the snakes have venom so she was in no danger and luckily no snakes bit her during our visit. We have become better friends over the course of doing this project and for that I am very happy.

Technically the assignment drove me crazy, I had to manipulate 29 photos which drove me crazy especially the Reptile page which was 3 tables with photos - fun! (sarcasm) I was happy that I was able to figure out Flash buttons to link between pages but when I loaded the website my file was too big so I took them out, I was bummed because they looked good. With Tripod I had major issues with uploading files so I used FortuneCity instead. Fortune city did not like 12 of my photos and rejected the files so I opened the photos in MicroSoft paint, adjusted the size and resaved, then went back to Dreamweaver and readjusted the photos and was able to successfully load my site. Success!

I think I did a good job with the site, it is very basic but I think it is easy to navigate, well balanced and contains interesting information.

I spent 35 hours, researching, constructing and uploading the Final Project.