Tuesday, February 25, 2014

February, 25th

What effect can a color scheme have on a website? How can it make a website better? How can it make a website worse? Explain why color is important.

 A color scheme can effect the website by the mood of the website and certain colors go well with certain topics, also certain colors don't go well with some topics. A color scheme can make a website look better by making it look more appealing and lightening the mood of the site. If you have a bad color scheme that doesn't go with the topic of the site it can make the website look awful.

Monday, February 24, 2014

February, 24th

What did you learn about file types as you created and designed your travel website? What are some other kinds of file types you know of? What do these different files do? Explain.

 I learned that certain file types won't work with Dream Weaver and some types will. For example the png file works in Dream Weaver but the regular Photoshop file doesn't work. I know of other file types like jpeg and things similar to that but I don't know how they work.

png
psd
jpg
pdf
web page
word document
XPS
html


Friday, February 21, 2014

February, 21st

What was your takeaway from this Travel Site? What did you learn that you didn't know before? How will the knowledge of how we built this site help you improve your future websites?

 I liked doing the travel website. I thought it was cool how once you were done with all your Photoshop images the site pretty much just creates itself. I learned how to do rollover images and increased my skill with Photoshop and learned how to save an image as a png. I will use this knowledge when making future websites to make my websites more advanced and cooler looking with text images and rollover images.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

February, 18th

How can Photoshop be a valuable tool in web design? Explain.

 Photoshop can be a valuable tool in web design if you want to make multiple pictures with effects, text, etc. Photoshop can also make the pictures on your website look a lot better than they usually are and it can make the picture more appealing to the eye. It's a great tool for making multiple pictures of the same image or just making pictures look more appealing.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

February, 11th

What do you know about Photoshop? Have you used it before? What can it do? Are you an expert? A newbie? Tell me about your background and what you already know.

 I know that Photoshop is a picture editing program on the computer that can do a ton of stuff with color, size, appearance all that stuff. Pretty much all the famous people you see on the cover of magazines or on the web, that picture has probably been photo shopped. I have used Photoshop before, I used it in 8th grade when I took emerging technologies. I'm not and expert or new to Photoshop...I have just used it before and had past experiences with it.

Friday, February 7, 2014

February, 7th

Think about how a user (me or anyone else using your site) might function and interact with your site. What are some important functional features to make your website easy to work with? How can you make it easier for the user and not frustrating? Explain why this is so important.

 I think that the functionality of a website should be easy for the user. The user should be able to roam and access the sit easily with no trouble. Everything should be appealing to the eye and no hard to read, easy to gather information. The user shouldn't have to click the mouse 100 times just to find what they're looking for. It is important to have your website easily functional because people aren't going to sit there for hours clicking and trying to find basic information. 

Monday, February 3, 2014

February, 3rd

Tell me about your Sweetheart weekend. If you didn't go to Sweetheart, what did you do? I want details! 

My sweetheart weekend was alright. I didn't go to the dance because that's just lame. Instead on Saturday, I just kinda hung out at home played some Xbox and that kind of stuff. I watched KU lose to Texas, and the Duke and Syracuse game go into overtime. On Sunday, I got up and went to church that was alright. I came home and played a rec basketball game, we ended up winning by 4. After the game i went home and watched the most boring Superbowl ever played.