June 14th

today was basically a wrap up day for my team mate and i. we have finished everything and spent most of the time looking over our site for turning it in next week. i feel confident that our final site will be a success and our client will enjoy it. our templates work well and we wished that we had them sooner.. but we learned more by doing it this way. this week has been pretty chill and gave my team mate and i more than enough time to finish our site.

June 13th

Today we finished up our templates for our website. I was finally able to give information on how to do something in the program. The template exercise was easy and it is a great way to be able to add more information to a site without having to create a layout for each new page. We also finished up our website today! We formatted some things differently so that they will match international standards so that viewers of our clients page will be able to understand the site. We are pleased with our site and we feel our client will be as well. I finished reading the webstyle guide chapters for this week and chapter 6 which focuses on our clients page reinforced and gave us information to change some of the things we had on our site. I had never read through our section before on the web but reading from the webstyle guide book I can see our topic clearer.

June 12th

Today working on templates was fairly easy. We made template pages for our client so that if they ever need to add or change info it can be done easily. We fixed the problems that were suggested during the critique and learned how to make a jump menu. I was actually quite helpful today since I completed the template exercises i knew how to make the template and apply it to our work which was good bc my teammate wasn't worried about reading and chapter exercises. Its been a few short weeks but i feel like i have learned a lot about dreamweaver and creating web pages.

June 11th

The critique didn't go as bad as I would have thought. Before we went over the site as a class Paul and I discussed some of the points that were mentioned to change. We were pleased to here we didn't have much improvement and I am looking forward to seeing the changes implemented. I was pleased to hear that our color schemes are working well because that is something I worked on.. yay. Learning templates was neat... its so easy to just make a model and use it for everything.. our site would have been extremely simple had we done this a few weeks ago. but oh well now i know how to do it both ways. Today was good because we got to see the different takes on the web sites our peers are making; and how they are interpreting the wants and needs of our client and its sites visitors.

June 7th

Its the end of the week.. and my team mate and I accomplished a whole lot, especially today. We redesigned our clients logo and finally figured out with some help why our site wasn't loading to the cluster account. the video on photoshop and the shortcuts really helped me today. i learned some great ways to do some of the most common tasks with the push of a few buttons. anything that makes the program easier is great. Our clients site is pretty much finished and we are pleased with our accomplishments.. we changed a lot around from the beginning but it looks much better. Having this week to work on our own time gave me time to explore the programs and learn a lot about photoshop and dreamweaver from my team mate.

June 6th...

Our client's site is coming along. We worked today on story boards and are finished except for having errors uploading to the webpage through secure shell. Today i was basically here to help guide desing and color schemes.. since its what i know best. I feel that our client will be pleased with the site we are making and that others will enjoy it as well. Since we were making our headers and footers for our page we worked more in photoshop than anything.. i'm still learning to navigate the program but its getting easier. today was pretty easy.. havign our own time to work on assignments is great becasuse I work almost every day and would have no time outside of class.

June 5th...

today my participation wasn't what i'd liked it to have been. i focused on working with dreamweaver while my teammate worked in photoshop. after we completed the dreamweaver exercise we worked on changing our clients site.. with hopes to improve appearance and usablitiy. My teammate showed me how to create buttons in photoshop and even though we had a few issues we were able to resolve them. today was good becuase we got to focus on our site and learning about the tables in chapter 9.. or at least i thought it went well. i feel like the more we work on our page the less i learn because my teammate speeds through everything, copying and pasting and i'm like slow down.. but he isn't the type to really follow directions he just wants the site finished. i don't think he prefers working with a novice. anyway tomorrow will be better because we will finish our story boards and our site design will be partially finished. we have come a long way in a short time and i hope the work that we have done pleases our client and those who visit the site. and i finally figured out why my posts were publishing at an extremely early time... yay.