Greetings!
Before I forget, here's the link to my webpage:
http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w725361/index.html
I don't know about anyone else, but the last couple of weeks have been a blur. Time is not on my side. You ever heard of the Rolling Stones' song, "Time is on My Side." I will change the lyrics a little (in parenthesis) for you:
Time is on my side, yes it is (Er...no it isn't)
Time is on my side, yes it is (Er...no it isn't I say!)
There are never enough hours in a day. Especially when you procrastinate, right? :)
Okay -- in Week 6, I continued to gather research for my final paper and I worked on my course webpage.
In Week 7 - I continued to work on my course webpage and I had to travel back home to Atlanta. I did not tell anyone but my husband because it was a quick turn around trip to check on my Mom.
About the web page -- I chose the colors -- yellow-gold and maroon because these are the colors of my university and I plan to use this webpage when I teach a portfolio course for the first time in the Fall. I did not use a lot of jpegs or bells or whistles. I kept it pretty simple and conservative. I would like to add more later, but for now, it is simple.
I ran into quite a few obstacles. For one, I did not initially save the home page as "index.html." Because of this, I ran into problems later. I also had to make sure that all jpegs were saved correctly and linked correctly. Why? When I uploaded the site to Ocean, many of the jpegs did not transfer. I had to figure out what went wrong.
I also had initial issues connecting to the Ocean account. I followed Dr. Wang's instructions however, it would not authenticate. I contacted the help desk and was told that I was not in the system. The help desk representative added my information to an Ocean account so that I could upload my website to Ocean. The representative asked me to try again in 20-30 minutes. After trying again, I was able to upload to the Ocean account. I followed the steps and the website did not work. I transferred the entire Website folder versus the files INSIDE of the "Website" folder. And the homepage file was not named index.html. I had to go back to NVU and rename the homepage.html file to index.html. I also had to re-link each page over again.
Word of advice -- follow Dr. Wang's instructions carefully. If not, this activity will become a train wreck waiting to happen. LOL
What a wonderful experience. Now I know how to create a webpage! I feel very proud of myself! Seriously! Remember when you finally figured out the Rubik's cube? Or you finally figured out that Chinese Checker game at Cracker Barrel? lol
Whew! On to the final paper.
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Sonya,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your website. Great Colors!!!! That gives me some more direction for next time!!
Thanks,
Roslyn
Your website is great. I kept my simple, too, because this was my first! I am so excited to have some knowledge about web design. Perhaps I know just enough to be dangerous. :-) I had one minor problem because I didn't save my picture as a .gif, and where the picture should have been was this horrid little red x. Ugh!! Fortunately, I figured out quickly what I'd done, corrected the problem, and then it worked! I was so fortunate, because trouble-shooting would not have been a strong point for me.
ReplyDelete@Rosalyn - I need to go take a peek at your website. I know you did a wonderful job! Thanks for your comments!
ReplyDelete@ Madelon - I had the same problem Madelon!!! LOL! I forgot to add thsi. The picture kept showing up just like yours did and it took me a minute to figure it out. Whew!