9/23/2013

Journal - What three cities did you choose for your travel website? Why did you choose these cities? Explain.

     First I choose Paris. I took French for a couple years and learned a lot about. The museums also look really cool. They have a great culture. I also heard they have excellent food over there. I really hope that I can go over there once in life.
     The second city I would like to go to is Chernobyl, Russia. You may of heard of it. It was a town that had a nuclear reactor melt down. The whole area had to be evacuated immediately. People didn't even get a chance to bring personal items, so it is essentially a ghost town.   
     The third city I want to go to is Tokyo, Japan because that's where Nintendo was created.

9/19/2013

Journal - What kind of knowledge do you have in photo editing programs? Do you know how to use Photoshop? Fireworks? Or how about online programs such as Pixlr or Sumo Paint? How do you edit photos or create images? Explain.

     I have knowledge in photo editing programs. The only time I ever used Photoshop was in seventh grade computer class. I have seen people photoshop them themselves into pictures with famous people on Ifunny. It would be cool to edit myself into photos but I have no idea how to. I have no idea what Pixlr, Fireworks, or Sumo Paint is, but I assume that it has something to do picture editing. I have cropped pictures before in word to make them fit into the paper.

9/16/2013

Journal - Tell me about your weekend. Where did you go? What did you do?
     
     This past weekend was pretty normal. On Saturday I had my second cross country race. I haven't gotten my time yet, but I'm pretty sure I did alright. Then I went home and took a four hour nap, later that I went to  a bonfire at Colin Strickland's house. We scorched about half his lawn. 
     On Sunday I went to church. Then I had to go to work for four hours then I came home did home and slept.

9/13/2013

Journal - What are some things that you have wished you could do in Dreamweaver that you haven't been able to do? What do you want to learn how to do when making a website? Explain.

     I wish I could edit and crop photos in Dreamweaver, because it is a major pain when I have to go through multiple steps to get the photos to fit. I wish could put one of those slideshow things in the middle of the page that says news or shows new pictures. I also would like to figure out how to put social network feeds in. It would also be cool if I knew how to put the weather feed in.
  

9/9/2013

Journal - What makes a website “user friendly”? Elaborate on your answer.

     A website is user friendly if it's easy on the eyes, the colors don't contrast, lots of links, it's updated regularly, comedic pictures and /or gifs, and most importantly it has reliable sources. Our teachers this year are really getting on us on using reliable sources, like databases, not Wikipedia. Links are important on  a website so that all the information is not on one page, that would be very tedious scrolling through finding information. A website should also not strain your eyes.

9/3/2013

Journal - List all the different file types you can think of. What types of files and images do you think are best for a website? What do you know about copyrights? How do you avoid using copyrighted images?

    I'm not really sure what types of files there are but I am pretty sure .jpeg and .pdf are some. You can not edit a .pdf. I have no idea when it comes to websites. .Jpegs are usually photos I have never paid attention to file types.

    If something is copyrighted you cannot copy it and say it is yours. You can go to jail if you copy something that is not yours. You can avoid copyrights by going to websites that have there own photos with water marks.