chapter 7

Most of the technical bits of this last chapter of the text were all old news to me. I thank BIS 2400 for that. I already know about meta tags, and how to make anchors/targets along a page. PDFs, RTFs and such are less familiar to me, but after reading this chapter I understand the differences, and hopefully through the work we do in class I will master the techniques of incorporating them in my web portfolio.
Today in BIS 2400 I paid less attention to Dr Pratt than normal and opened up not my site for her class but my site for this class and played with it. I'm trying to perfect the template design I will use for the rest of my portfolio. I hope it turns out well. At the moment my experiment with layers has gone a bit screwy. I'll figure it out sooner or later though. Once we finish the section on Dreamweaver in BIS 2400 and get on to learning Fireworks I'll be able to do cool graphics and such, which I'm sure I will have fun working on.

Usability Report stuff: Jamie and I met today and hashed out an outline of sorts for this project. We've divided up the work into a before/during/after type layout to document our Dreamweaver presentation & results; each of us will work on one section. It shouldn't be too hard. The only problem I see is that spring break falls right in the middle of all this work, so it might possibly be a struggle to make ourselves actually do it. I trust we'll get it done despite this though.

Anyway... I'm getting the impression (maybe this isn't altogether correct) from The Web Portfolio Guide and also from The Non-Designer's Web Book that image is really important when you're presenting your professional self to the world. That probably sounds like a really obvious thing to say; I only mention it because I have this fierce desire to be really good at this web design stuff just for that reason. Call it vanity if you like, I just want to look like I know what I'm doing. I want to have a perfectly polished image. Is this class going to help me acheive that? I have great expectations. Not that it all depends on Rylish and what he teaches us, of course. I know I have to work at this myself too. So--

step 1: learn to trust yourself,

step 2: and learn to trust everyone else,

step 3: but expect more of yourself than you do of them

Theoretical rubbish, I guess. Who knows if it actually makes any sense at all. I'm just typing here. I don't know if I've gotten up to 500 words yet or not, but this is about all I have to say.