Chapter 7 and 8

I'd just like to say that the BCC computer lab needs DreamWeaver... especially since it's usually considered the MAIN lab that actually stays open all week.... just sayin'....

I had worked on Chapter 7 last Thursday but had to stop midway through it. I finished it today and decided that I'm not a fan of frames. I can see how they're useful and know of great ways to use them... but, learning about them isn't fun. It's long, tedious, and complex. Often times, I had to go back and reread steps because there was simply so much to it. Chapter 8 wasn't so bad however, since I've worked with tables a lot before in Excel, I was more familiar with the commands. Though there was yet another difference between this version of Dreamweaver and the one our book was guiding us through. I couldn't find the Format Table in Lesson 5, so I had to skip steps 1-5, as well as the 5th step in the 2nd section (turning table black). In Chapter 8, there isn't a Layout button in the Insert Bar and while I found the Layout Table button under insert, it was gray, which meant that I couldn't select it. Accordingly, I also had to skip Lesson 7 entirely.

So, after completing the lessons of Chapters 7 and 8, completing the study guides, and emailing the results to Prof. Howard, I updated the assignments on my personal site. I also changed the background by adding an image, deleting the table which contained the header with the boat image, and played around with the fonts. I think I'm happy with it for now, but I'll let it stew for a couple of days and see what else I can do with it.

grr

As amazing as that lab employee who helped our group get our website working on the internet was... he kind of screwed up my files. I was a little disgruntled when I discovered that my "wip" folder was empty of the folders and files I had in there and was instead filled with a bunch of corrupt stuff. So, I had to go back and re-download them.... and then to discover that my individual site had been replaced with what he had been trying to get to work...

So, I'm not screwed over or anything by this... just a little inconvenienced... and disgruntled. -_-'

Chapter 6

I also just completed Chapter 6 and sent the study guide results to the Professor. A very useful chapter. I'm definitely going to apply it to my individual site.

Chapter 5

From my 3.5 years at Western, I should have been prepared for the crowds that inhabited the campus computer labs the week before Finals. For that reason coupled with the rather cold, wet weather, it's no wonder that the wait times for each of the computer labs I visited today were about 15 minutes. I'm definitely not complaining, I just thought it was interesting how many people procrastinate, just like me. :)

I worked on Chapter 5 before class today and was delighted to see that the Lessons really weren't as time demanding as I had thought. I actually enjoyed this chapter quite a bit since I like working with images and the like. I had to finish the chapter at a different computer lab and was able to also work on my individual site, by adding the lesson text to the Assignments page of the site. I also created 5 links for the Links page. I inserted an image and wrote a small introduction to the home page. Last night, my boyfriend, who is pretty proficient in HTML teach me a little about repeating images and creating them for the header for my more personalized site. I haven't exactly been happy with what I've been working on, in terms of new images to use, but it won't take that long, methinks.