CS 1300 Advice

After spending a semester in Ms. Belisle's CS 1300 class I think I can give some good advice about doing a good job. The best thing you can do is to make it to every class. It is very hard to get caught up after missing a class. Another very important thing is to do all of your homework. Even though each assignment is only worth a small amount of points, they all start to add up and small amounts of points can make a difference. Just make sure you do your best and i'm sure you will do great!

Other Students' Websites

I enjoyed all of the websites that were presented in class. They were all well designed and very interesting. I especially liked Erin's because it was very professional. She did a great job of layout and color scheme, and she was able to embed a video, which no one else did. I also like Morgan's because she had many interesting ideas. her navbar was by far my favorite and she had many creative backgrounds that made her page very unique. Finally, I enjoyed John's page because he themed in in a very interesting way instead of just making a personal webpage. He made his webpage from the point of view of a sports analyst. He had many interesting ideas and made his page very professional.

My Website

Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~eroberso. Making my website as easier than I thought it would be because I didn't realize how helpful the software could be. I used Microsoft Expression Web to create my website. The page I am most proud of is my Gammas page because I was able to make the whole page hippy themed. If I could change one thing I might go back and make all of the pages consistent in color. My biggest technical challenge was getting layouts to work in expression web, and m y biggest design challenge was with colors because that is not my strong point. I may show my website to my family and my friends. In the future I may not make another site for class but I may have to for my job this summer.

Reading HTML

Although it is no longer necessary to hand code webpages, because of software like expression web, it is still very important that web designers know how to use and read HTML code. A reason for this might be that if something ever goes wrong with the webpage it might be hard to diagnose and fix by just looking at the actual page. Instead, the web designer would be able to open up the HTML code and find the precise source of the problem.

My Photo That Lies

For my pictures that lie assignment I chose to alter a picture of a criminal lineup. I found the picture while searching on google. The ppicture was manipulated by replacing the heads of some of the criminals in the lineup with items that are harmful to the environment. Then everything but the manipulated men was reduced in saturation to a black and white image. The caption environmental enemies was then placed under the men. I did this to make a point about pollution. I believe that polluting the environment is a crime and that environmental enemies are public enemies. By making the environmentl enemies colored I meant to show them standing out from just other average criminals in the lineup. I do not believe that my changes were harmful because I used it for a completely different purpose than the origonal image."The Photographic Society of America defines creative photography as the use of altered reality. in an image. The PSA Exhibition Standards require that the photographic content of the image must predominate." I believe that my picture upholds this idea of creative photaography because a large percentage of the altered photograph is still from the origonal.

McTighe, Elena. "Thinking Creatively." PSA Journal 75.9 (2009): 23-25. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 13 Apr. 2010.