Advice for new students

One piece of advice I would give would be to make sure to save in the correct folder. I had only saved on the computer desktop before, so this was kind of confusing at first. It would have been a good idea for me to go back and check to make sure the folders were in the right place after I had saved the assignment.

Website presentations

I enjoyed watching people present their websites because each one was so unique and interesting. If I had to pick some that stood out to me one would be Mica's. I didn't expect a colorful, repetitive background would work on the pages, but it did. Even though each background was different, they all tied in the theme of curves and the grid pattern they were placed in. Another person's website that caught my eye was Avery's. I liked the different color backgrounds for each page, and the informal style the website was written in. After seeing it I feel like I know more about her as a person. Really nice job. Monideepa's website was also very well done. The image map (with corresponding symbols) was a nice touch. I also liked how the music page had both pictures and links to the sites of the musicians. All three of these people did well in presenting and summarized instead of just reading captions.

Why HTML

Even though web-authoring software can be very helpful and can make creating a web-page more efficient, there is still reason to know the general HTML codes. When something goes wrong with the website, the only way to see exactly what is wrong with it is to look at the HTML to fix it. If the web desighner has no idea how to read the HTML code, he or she cannot fix the problem.

Blog Favorites

There were a lot of really well done powerpoint presentations, but two of my favorites would have to be Daniel's on being a PGA golf instructer and Mica's on Malinche. Although I didn't expect to be interested in the subject of golf, the presentatation itself was interesting with the incorperation of animations and the video. Mica's presentation was interesting because Malinche was a historical figure that I knew only a little about, but is referenced in literature fairly often.