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Usability and HTML

By Stephanie Wilson on November 29, 2010 9:15 PM | No Comments

Since my previous blog portfolio, I have learned the following:

In order to make a site usable, it has to be simple.
To make a site pretty you must use a pretty color scheme
I learned that iWeb is my new best friend. HTML coding and J-edit are so last Thursday. I don't appreciate working blindly, I want instant success...or at least to see that I did something wrong immediately, not after I put on finishing touches.
Oh! I also learned that when reading on the internet people are rather lazy so in order to encourage this, you must make lists your best friend.

Post Categories:

Interaction

- Between this and this post, I interacted so often that it wouldn't let me post anymore comments and told me to come back later... I guess the Seton Hill blogspot needs a fail whale.

Discussion:

- I discussed a lot about saving work with fellow creative writing majors.

Outside material:

- I enjoy the quotes on this site, they often ring true in my own life...

- can I consider my own website as outside material? If so, here it is!

Pathos:

- Some raw emotion...

- I amend previous sentiments

- I really am quite proud of my website

Conventions:

- If you'd take a look at the "About Me" tab on my website, I made some of the general info about myself into a list!

The Return of the Bane of my Existence

By Stephanie Wilson on November 29, 2010 11:46 AM | 4 Comments

The USB that I had thought that I lost in a small town just south of the New York border called Bradford, Pa was found this week in the pocket of my petty coat. I was quite ecstatic as it had all my previous work as a writer and student saved on it and for the past year I had thought it lost for good. Though this seems to be a wondrous occurrence, it was also the second time I had lost the stupid thing - I'm just not good at keeping track of small objects. So I can't help but wonder, when and where am I going to lose it next? This also brings up another question, how do I save all of my work? I know you should always back files up in separate places, yet USB's can be lost and computers can crash. So here is my question fellow writers: What do you guys do to make sure you don't lose works that you wish to work on/ publish at a later date? Do you print out hard copies? Keep a journal locked away on some deserted island? Keep it in some Swiss bank safe under lock and key (and possible motion censored lasers and fat security guards)? Do you have backup? A backup for your backup?

Correction!

By Stephanie Wilson on November 29, 2010 11:36 AM | 5 Comments

Remember my blog post where I said I loved HTML? Yes well, it has now dissolved into a love/hate relationship. I love how methodical it is, I love how it all just comes together...however this only happens when you do everything correctly, and seeing as how I am human, I am far from perfect so there were many times of frustration to be had. Luckily, I heard from my fellow classmate, DJ about iWeb, which is an amazing application on mac that supplies templates and makes the creation of a website fun and easy! Did anyone else's views on HTML change throughout the development of their web portfolio?

Oh! Here is a link to said website!

Site Map

By Stephanie Wilson on November 16, 2010 3:44 PM | No Comments

I think I am starting from scratch and using a nifty template. I think.

Homepage - Stephanie's Corner (original, I know):

- new template...MUST MAKE PRETTY!!!

- figure out how to make things go where I want them to (i.e. images) because everything must go my way.

- will have links to my blog and the "Sampling page"

-adding a link to a page that will be more about my major, my favorite authors, maybe have a favorite poet... not set in stone yet

-also adding a link to my twitter account

- adding a "contact info" paragraph

"Sampling" page:

- add the image of my remix project

- add the video and links to my multimedia project

- figure out if I want to add other things I'm "proud" of from my other classes.

I love how ironic-ly easy this stuff sounds because when I go and do it...it's not.

Words+Pictures=Multimedia and HTML

By Stephanie Wilson on November 11, 2010 5:12 PM | No Comments

Since the last time I did one of these things, I learned:

Multimedia projects are a lot less daunting for readers. What can I say, the internet has made our generation lazy.

HTML is like a warm blanket of methodology.

I learned that readers can be really mean.

Also, I realized that NaNoWriMo should really be in a summer month when I have more time to devote to it....luckily I figured this out before I even started the daunting task.

Post Categories:

Interaction:

- I interacted with Katy about the dubbing of Dr. W's name "Dr. Dubski" It will catch on.

- I even interacted with a published author @sklompar ...but I don't think I can link to private messages. It would defeat the purpose.

- Oh, and I left a comment on one of Kayla's posts.

Depth:

- I am obviously too verbose for twitter.

- I wrote about writing...for NaNoWriMo!

Discussion:

- I discussed Stephenie Meyer's writing talents...or lack there of (there is more to the conversation, just don't know how to post the entire thread).

- Talked about HTML ...a lot with some fellow 236ers

Outside Material:

- I posted a link to a blog post I had read and commented on it.

- I used a website that allows you to post - on your twitter account- tweets that are longer than the standard 140 characters.

- Here I linked to a cute article about NaNoWriMo

Pathos (because ethos is ethics):

- In which I express some personal concerns

- I'm a Harry Potter junkie.

Conventions:

- I hope this link works. It is to show off my HTML skill(with a)z.

- I like to call this thinking outside the box...literally.

- I adhered to convention but with my own flavor.

HTMLove.

By Stephanie Wilson on November 10, 2010 12:05 PM | 9 Comments

I really like using HTML, there is just something to the methodology of the formulas. It's soothing, as I do the assignments I just sink into the routine. "Ok if I add <p> I know I have to finish with </p>." I've seen HTML before, back in the good old days when MySpace was still cool, I went to a website with some catchy gimmick of a domain like "cutelayouts.com." I would then have to find the layout I liked then copy and paste the code onto my myspace page. There were even times where I would have to replace the generic <title> with one of my own.

But I've never gone so in depth with HTML. The book really helped also because it not only tells you what to do, but why you're doing it - which satisfies the eternal two year old in me that shall eternally ask this question. What do you guys think of the HTML? Like it? Hate it?

Scary

By Stephanie Wilson on November 10, 2010 11:58 AM | 1 Comment

This blog post scares me. Alright, so not the blog itself, but more the comments left on the post. There are some mixed reviews and some nice ones but then there are the downright mean ones! Look at the top, the editor of the site (writerunboxed.com) had to add a preface, a little slap on the wrists to remind folks to be nice when they criticize, to be courteous.

Now obviously these posters are not five year olds who are still learning this lesson. So why must people be so mean? It is feedback like this that makes me hesitant to publish my stuff. I know I have to develop thick skin, has any one got some advice for me on how to do this? There is also a huge difference between criticism and brutality. What do you guys think? Any creative writers/photographers/journalists who worry about what people may say? Am I the only one?

Multimedia Project Final Draft!

By Stephanie Wilson on November 3, 2010 9:25 AM | 1 Comment

My Video:

The Writing Portion: mmpro-twitter.docx

OR : Link.

Psssst! Creative Writing/ Journalism Majors!

By Stephanie Wilson on October 27, 2010 10:02 PM | 2 Comments

From stuff

What are your thoughts on NaNoWriMo? I personally don't think I can go to classes and produce a novel in a month and still say I came out of it with what sanity I have left still in tact. I may take a month during the summer to do it...Or just write 50,000 words over the course of a month because, let's face it, if I were to do an entire novel in one month, it would be pretty much free writing and I hate free writing with a passion. I'm more of a write on my arms/napkins/TP when the muse hits me upside the head with a fish kinda girl. I can't sit down for ten minutes and write what comes to mind. I'd much rather write down a couple lines with some cool imagery like this:

Ethereal. Whispers singing the high percussion of air being sliced betwixt two steel rings at break neck speeds. The shadowy vestiges of metal hula-hoops spinning- running Earth’s diameter. Beneath. Above. Beside. This basin of all and nothing.

Rather than an entire paragraph of "I hate these shoes. They hurt. Why did I wear them?" But that's just me! So, I'd love to hear what everyone thinks about NaNoWriMo and/ or free writing. If you want to share some secrets of the trade that seem to work for you that'd be pretty awesome too!

P.S. - Incase you're wondering, that little piece describes the sound I was hearing the other day when I was standing at the top of the North face of the mountain at Seven Springs. It was probably just the distant high way but anything sounds amazing when you're on the top of the world.

Multimedia Project/ Griffin's Challenge

By Stephanie Wilson on October 19, 2010 6:09 PM | No Comments

my Video:

My Twitter Narrative

mmpro-twitter.docx

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

The Writers' Circle

Usability and HTML

The Return of the Bane of my Existence

Correction!

Site Map

Words+Pictures=Multimedia and HTML

HTMLove.

Scary

Multimedia Project Final Draft!

Psssst! Creative Writing/ Journalism Majors!

Multimedia Project/ Griffin's Challenge

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