Good Advice

The major piece of good advice I can give is to do all of your work. The class is not too difficult, but some of the homework is time consuming, so don't wait!! Other than that, have a great year and good luck in the course!

Favorite Websites

My three favorite websites were CJ's, John's, and Erin's. I like how CJ put the pictures of tigers as a steady theme throughout his website, and the hotspots on those tigers were a nice touch as well. I loved John's for one reason in particular, that I love sports; therefore I had a special attachment to his website, as it was a sports analysis website. Erin's website was also wonderful, she used a solid color scheme and the importation of the video was fantastic and relevant. Great Job guys!!

My website

Please visit my website at : www.cs.trinity.edu/~bturner1.

To make my website, I used expression web. Inserting pictures and the simplicity of a navigation bar was surprisingly easy. I really like my Sports section, just because it explains alot of who I am. I am a huge sports fanatic, therefore its my favorite. My biggest technical challenge was with hotspots, because they kept messing up on me. I will show my website to anyone I feel appropriate, including employers, friends and family. My biggest design challenge consisted with inserting a picture as a background, it was difficult to find a neutral enough picture to make colors go well with. And I may indeed make another website for another class. Only time will tell.

My Pic That Lies

I chose a picture of Tiger Woods hitting a bunker shot while wearing his traditional Sunday red shirt. I chose this picture because I am a golf fan and Tiger's personal life has been among scrutiny as of late, so I wanted to create a picture to depict that. My picture originated from the Los Angeles Times website, latimes.com. I manipulated it by duplicating the background layer, then adjusting all of the saturation so that the top layer was completely black and white. Then took the background eraser tool and erased all of the parts where I wanted color to show, like his shirt to show the red. I then added two text layers, one of a large letter A on his shirt, and another above him saying "Scarlet Letter?". I manipulated the photo in this way, to make the connection between Tiger's traditional Sunday red shirt and the novel The Scarlet Letter, by saying that Tiger Woods is an adulterer. Yes this manipulation is harmful because it adds a negative aspect to Tiger Woods' life that the picture did not depict before hand. The article I researched was about how fake pictures effect the way the general public recieves certain images that lie. My picture fits in with this because the picture did not originally call Tiger Woods an adulterer and now that it is altered the general public will recieve this pictures in a different way.

MLA Citation: Hamblin, T. J. "Fake!" British Medical Journal. BMJ Publishing Group: 1981. Web.

HTML

It is important for website designers to be able to use HTML codes because it is the essential code that the whole website is based upon. While using HTML codes, it is sometimes easier to make small designing changes and if something does not turn out how the designer wanted it to, the designer can then go back and look at the HTML code to figure out where the mistake is.

PowerPoint Presentaions

My two favorite presentations were Hunter's on Marine Biology and sharks, and Tori's on teaching children. Both used useful pictures and data. Tori's in particular had a very funny video that was effective in making me realize that teaching little children actually could be fun. It made me not think about all of the negative aspects that could come along with that profession. Hunter used the Jaws theme song in his presentation that was very useful and he did not clutter his slides with too many words, which made his slides clear and easy to understand.

PowerPoint

I think that some keys points to a good and effective powerpoint are: 1. Keeping it simple. Don't try and jam slides full of words, simple text is more effective 2. Don't read the slides!! Have your slides with pictures and describe what your are trying to say with the pictures in the presentation. Use note cards to help spur presentation do not just read the slides. 3. Use relevant pictures and relevant sounds. Avoid clip art if possible. 4. Use effective transitions. Do not just throw in a spin if it does not benefit the presentation. That is annoying!!! 5. Use good body language, and show emotion in the presentation. Your audience will benefit from this.