Hello Bloggarinos!
I am a little sad that this is our last blog together. I can't believe the last 8 weeks have flown by. I still am glad to be done with HTML but I will admit that knowing HTML helped if I wasn't liking how Dreamweaver set something up. For example, I would enter breaks in Code view of Dreamweaver. I have been inspired by this course to enroll in another web design class next semester, hope to see some of you there.
I must say that I was pleased with the books we used for this course, since we are online it is important to have a book that explains things well, is easy to follow and easy to use as a resource. Both texts have been great!
I was happy to see many students participating with the bulletin boards. I feel we got to know each other through them and the group project. A suggestion for the blogs would be to have us write one for each week rather than each assignment, combine them. This would save time and really I had similar comments about the different assingments so sometimes it was hard to think of good comments to make. I was disappointed that a group member bailed on us, I think it would have been nice to have more suggestions but Virginia is an awesome team member!
Carrie and Viola, you have been great in assisting me with problems/questions over the last few weeks and for that I say a big THANK YOU.
I now feel I have a basic understanding of webdesign and look forward to learning more, not sure I would like it as a carreer but as I said in the beginning of the course I would like to use these skills for some of the groups I volunteer for.
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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.
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.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Reusing Code and Rollover images
Hello Bloggers!
I am thinking this is my favorite assignment...why you ask? Well I got it done quickly and understood what I was doing. I now know why we had to go through the horrible HTML assignments...to better understand how to work with Dreamweaver (and appreciate it too). This assignment took about 45 min to do. The worst part was cleaning up the copied code from Geocities when pasted to Dreamweaver but I love how Dreamweaver marked the code to tell me to "Delete Here" how great is that.
This assignment was so easy that I didn't even need my usual mellow music in the background!
Off to begin the final project and find some content for Wiki since one of our group members is MIA!
Have a super week!
I spent 45 min on this assignment!
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