my final project!

My final project is posted at http://portfolio.aliciapimental.com.

Lynda.com videos

After watching the first series of videos, I realized I'm not a big fan of floating. I can see its purpose in some designs, but I do not plan to have a site that will need to use floating. Also, I was not familiar with some of the codes he was writing, so it was hard to follow because the codes were not instinctive for me as they were for him. I actually found myself reading the text about the history of tea more than I was listening to him...oops.

The second series of videos were great. The starter pages are awesome...I definitely see myself using those in future web design projects. I especially like how there's comments in the code so you learn why certain values were set the way they were. Also, I definitely plan to use external style sheets for my portfolio...I've always used them on the sites I create because they're simple to make changes to, rather than having to change the CSS on each individual page. But I'm glad to have Dreamweaver this time around to help me build my style sheet!

Killer Web Content article

The article by Gerry McGovern on Killer Web Content (I can't figure out how to get the link to that page through Angel!) is pretty familiar to me, since I write for the web for a living. I try to read as much of this kind of material as possible. So the idea of keeping your online writing short, sweet and to-the-point resonates with me. I actually have another book on web writing called "Don't Make Me Think!", which also pretty much sums up what people want from the web.

In translating this concept to my final project, I'm keeping the links to the pages with content front and center, not burying what the people who come to my site would be looking for.

CSS List

Here's my CSS list. This is a really easy way to make buttons...I think I might try it on my online portfolio.

Adobe CSS article

The article on CSS from Adobe was another good overview, with great details, about using CSS in web layouts. I'm going to use it in class tonight to start creating my homepage in Dreamweaver.

Week 11 In-class Assignment

Here it is!

Chapter 16

Here's my chapter 16 exercise. I can definitely see how templates can be useful when creating a website, particularly one with lots of pages. I'll have to play around with this option a bit more to get comfortable enough with it to include it into my final project.

I had a little technical problem in the first exercise. When I clicked the templates button under the assets panel, nothing showed up. I hit refresh and still nothing. I restarted Dreamweaver, but that didn't help. So I just went to the files panel and found the template under the templates folder. But when I saved the changes to the template, the pages that were supposed to update did not. I'm not sure what happened...if it's an error on my end or with the book.