Assignment 6 - about 11/19/08

Class date: 11/19/08

Today in class we focused primarily on E-bay and how to use HTML to make a nice looking page for your goods for sale, because a well-organized page (with lots of pictures) has been proven to up bids. We did a quick run-through on listing and the importance of feedback, and the rest of the class was focused on the HTML. We also created a mock page for a storm sail for sale, using thumbnails of pictures.

Currently we are supposed to be working on our webpage projects. I have the basic structure of the tables on my site finished and will be adding the details in the coming days. I've decided to make my personal site be about the novel I wrote for this year's NaNoWriMo. I just recently finished it so all of the details are fresh in my mind. I have an index page, a page for characters, and a page for information about the novel and the stats, (wordcount per day, etc.) If a third page is needed I'll probably separate the info and stats into two separate pages, or possibly a "deleted idea" page for ideas that didn't make it into the story.

Assignment 5 - about 11/12/08

Class date: 11/12/08

Class was cut short today so we hurried through the topics. In preparation for making our website, today we looked at tables and created a fake page using tables to organize the contents. The assignment is to finish the page we started in class. I'll be modifying it, mostly because I'm a cat person and our test page is about dogs. ;) The finished page will incorporate four pictures, a "bread-crumb trail" of links leading back to the fake home page we created last week, and various attributes of tables which we studied today. (align, colour, vertical alignment, borders, etc.)

Assignment 4 - about 11/5/08

Class date: 11/5/08

Soon in class we'll be creating a small personal website, and today was the introduction to HTML and web building. We created directories and copied them to our zip drives, and made a practice home page. We also discussed the colour wheel and complementary colours, along with combinations that will make your eyes bleed and you should never ever use them.

The assignment was to discuss HTML and the such on our blogs. I'm familiar with the basics of HTML, as I took three years of web design in high school and the HTML class here. Coincidentally I just last week coded a new profile page for my personal blog, where I typed all the code manually, not using any WYSIWYG programs. I did use WYSIWYG programs, specifically FrontPage, for many school assignments, so there are plenty of tags I don't know. But I do know where to find them online and where to find instructions for how they are used, and consider myself a decent HTML coder once I settle into the rhythm. One of my new favourite tags is the table tag, because I like being able to restrict text to exactly where I want it. That particular tag came in very useful for organizing my profile. I haven't yet used it to its full ability, however.
I have never used CSS, so that will be new for me. In my web design class we used a tiny bit of Javascript, but I've never had to code it myself. So if we end up going into either of those in class, they will be unfamiliar territory.