Advice for future classes...

This is a very fun class, but if you want to do well, you MUST keep up with the homework every night. Try not to get behind, because each class builds on the previous one. Have fun and be creative with it!

Our First Websites

For our first shot at making a web page, I'd say the whole class did a great job! Once I got past the nit-picky details, I actually had a lot of fun making my website. There were a couple sites from our class that I particularly liked. Ashley's was very well designed, and I really liked her collage on the homepage. I also liked her page with all of her photography work; it looked very nice on the black background. Danika's website was also very good. She has a great design, and I really liked her hometown collage. Her gallery was really good as well. And, I really liked Jeanna's website. She obviously has an amazing talent with digital graphics. I really liked how unique her design was and how fun her click-ons were.

Everyone did an excellent job in designing their websites! I thoroughly enjoyed making my own. You can visit it at www.cs.trinity.edu/~mappelba

The Joys of Creating a Webpage

I always thought that creating a web page would be very difficult. Now that I know how to do it, I still think so! It is a very meticulous process if you do it by hand, but it is a lot more fun than I expected. I'm sure most professional page-makers use cool programs like Microsoft Expression Web to make the process easier and quicker, but they do need to know how to hand code a web page. Nifty programs are not always perfect, and if something were to go wrong or breakdown, the designer would need to be able to fix the web page by hand. Also, they would be able to read the html of other pages and either learn new techniques or point out errors for that page. It is always good to know the basics before you learn the high tech advancements.

PowerPoint Presentations

Our class is rather skilled in PowerPoint I believe. All of the presentations were well constructed and demonstrated a certain level of skill. The presentations themselves were good too; no one simply read off of their slides. There were a couple that stood out to me as excellent though.

I really enjoyed Jose's PPT for a number of reasons. He had a unique topic and obviously enjoyed talking and learning about it. His PPT was put together well; I really liked his background because it was simple and yet very effective. He also had a good use of pictures and animation. I enjoyed listening to his presentation.

Ashley's PPT was also very nice. It was professional but not boring! She utilized her background, fonts, and pictures very well, and made them all fit an overall theme of business and communication. Her gif was also very creative. Ashley made a very convincing point with her PPT presentation.

Like I said though, our entire class did a marvelous job with this assignment.