Personal Blog

My favourite portion of the course was blogging. I chose to blog mainly about video games, but sometimes I'd go a little off topic, but that's okay. I was already quite familiar with the layout and organization of blogging before starting the unit so it was easy for to get into it. It's much easier to use then Dreamweaver and also much quicker to get what you want to say onto the interwebz. I liked how everyone in the class was aloud to comment on each others blog posts; I feel it brought us closer together as a class.

Everyday more and more people are choosing to have blogs over actual websites for many good reasons:

1. Blogging is free
2. Sites like blogger.com are easier to use then programs such as Dreamweaver
3. It's easier to get direct feedback from your readers (commenting)


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Access

I really did not enjoy working with Microsoft Access. It wasn't very difficult work but it was extremely repetitive. I don't think I would ever take a job as a database manager unless I was really desperate. The program itself was easy to use and the instructions in the booklet were easy to follow.

Flash Website

After the choose your own adventure game, we had to make a website using Flash. I chose to make my site all about Homestar Runner. I had fun making the site even though I hate working with motion tweens. That was the only real difficulty I had while doing this assignment; everything else was just basic button pressing and such. I didn't fully complete the project, but I think I met the majority of the requirements.



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Choose Your Own Adventure

My choose your own adventure game I made using Flash was never completed. I got about 75% of it finished, then we started something new and I sort of forgot it ever existed. From this assignment I learned how to go from one frame to another using action script and how to make items and such. The assignment was a game so the kind of stuff we were doing in programming is reflected in this piece.


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Dreamweaver Tech Site

Making the tech-related site was the best part of the Dreamweaver unit for me. I learned how to make a website using Dreamweaver and basic techniques to make it look good. I got to be more creative when doing this assignment which made it all the more fun. Even though having your own domains isn't a very good idea, it's still good to know how. The only this I wish we could have learned was how to actually get our sites onto the Internet.

Flash Books

I learned a lot from the Flash books. They may have been a pain in the booty to read through, but they did help. I was glad we did work with Flash in this class because at the same time in my programming class we were also using Flash. Even though most of the work we did in programming involved using the action script and the work we did in this class was more working with frames and layers, it still gave me more experience with the program.



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Dreeeeamweaver

Using Dreamweaver was fun. My favourite part was when we got to make our own website about whatever we wanted. The book work was kind of boring but it wasn't that bad. I think it was a little hard to understand sometimes; I just wish it had more diagrams. This is a screen shot of the example website we had to make. I really enjoyed making this because we didn't have to stick to exactly what the book said so we were able to change some text and pictures.