Monday, November 24th

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

Thanksgiving is my birthday. Usually on Thanksgiving we have a huge family dinner down at my grandmas house. This tradition ended last year when sadly my Grandma past away. Now I really don't know what we will do for Thanksgiving, hopefully someone will come down to visit us.

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But on Thanksgiving we will be celebrating my birthday, then eating the big dinner, and then we will be going out to do some black friday shopping! Colby and I will get the GoPro Camera, then go and fight old women for the half priced ipads. I can't wait for that. Anyways, later on in the week I'll be hanging out with other friends, making other YouTube Videos and finishing College Applications. So I will have a lot to do this break.

Thursday, November 20th

Go out and look up a what all goes on a resume website. What can you find? Include an example image if possible.

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Anything and everything to show someone any and all accomplishments. A resume website is much more useful because it can be every changing and be completely updated unlike most resumes in which you have to make copies for every new person. You should be including contact information, why you should hire, and about me page, and any other specifics that will make you look different than the next.

Monday, November 17th

Consider the quote. What exactly do you think it means and how does it relate to Web Design?

I think the quote means that how well something is designed is based on how well it works. It may or may not be pretty but the way it works is how well it is designed. The man stating the quote showed this quote in everyday life. Steve Jobs made perfect designs in almost everything he did. The phone and computers being so easily worked, so user-friendly that they became popular. The way each apple store was laid out in such a simple design was what made it so popular. Everything was simple, easy to understand. 

In Web Design, this applies to how simple and user friendly a website is. The way a website is designed will determine how often a user will return to such a website. If it is easy to use, pretty to look at, and gets the point across, then this is a successful website. Example: Google Drive. Its beautiful and works perfectly.

User Experience - The overall experience someone uses while on a computer website or application. Especially in terms of how easy or pleasing it is to use.

Thursday, November 13th

Reflect on your learning this semester so far in this class. Think about the first day you walked in to this room until right now. What have you learned about Web Design? What have you learned beyond Web Design? Explain yourself.

When I walked into class the first day I really had not known much about programming or Web Design. I had taken a intro to programming class my freshman year but I hadn't retained much of that knowledge. So basically I relearned the way to program and use HTML. Not only did I learn HTML again I also was able to use it for something I actually was interested in. 

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I have learned how to make the basics of a website, but I have also began to learn how to make a website look very professional. Slowly but surely I'm getting better at making websites. Beyond the actual web design part I learned how to use PhotoShop and other useful tools for my social media endeavors later in life. 

Friday, November 7th

Define the following terms on your blog. Do not copy and paste definitions. Site where you got your definition.

FTP - The file transfer protocol is a network protocol that transfers via internet, one host to another.

Web Server -  a computer system that delivers web sites through HTTP, the basic network protocol used on the "World Wide Web".

Web Hosting - This is a service that allows people to make their sites accessible to the "world wide web"

Source: Wikipedia

Monday, November 3rd

Tell me about your weekend. Give me details and photos!\

On Friday, I went out to a Costume shop to look for something because I had no idea what I wanted to be for halloween. I just decided to dress really weird and in nice clothes. So I guess that was pretty spectacular. Anywho, after that Colby and I went down to Worlds of fun and went around scaring people. The people at WOF said our costumes were too realistic so we couldn't go into the park. We did anyway and almost go kicked out multiple times. 

On Saturday I woke up early and started working on our new YouTube Channel. Colby and I recorded two videos and I used the template below to create a banner for our channel. Then we scoped out this house and took a couch from it's living room and put it in our YouTube room. That was a hard job. 

On Sunday I had to come back to reality and do all my homework. So I practiced Saxophone, did homework, hung up many things in my room that I have put of for months, etc. So all in all, the weekend was extremely productive.