2/25/09

Today's class was very productive... I was able to go in and finish up all the titles on each of the pages of the Caissa Web Site... After doing the titles, in other words, making sure each page had a title and did not say Untitled Document, i was able to check the rest of the page... I looked at all the pages and pictures and made sure everything was in order and in its place... and later i began to run a general spell check on each of the pages, to make sure nothing is misspelled... The challenging part of today was the fact that with dreamweaver, you can only spell check the one page that is open:s... which in other words means a lot of tedious work for me next class, even though i already spell checked a few, i still have the mayority to go... however i had to stop to write this blog, which you are now reading:p... in my opinion the web site should be finished very soon, given the fact that it is almost entirely complete... :D

Cycle 2 Blog Entry

Throughout this cycle i was able to make a lot of advances in both the Caissa web page and the technology showcase flyer. As a matter of fact, i finished the technology showcase flyer entirely during this cycle. I was able to do these things due to 3 factors; technology, the internet, and computers. The human race's use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in traveling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons. The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available servers and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory. The same connection allows that computer to send information to servers on the network; that information is in turn accessed and potentially modified by a variety of other interconnected computers. A majority of widely accessible information on the Internet consists of inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW). Computer users typically manage sent and received information with web browsers; other software for users' interface with computer networks includes specialized programs for electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and file sharing. A computer is a machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (1940–1945), although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier. Early electronic computers were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PC). Modern computers are based on tiny integrated circuits and are millions to billions of times more capable while occupying a fraction of the space. Today, simple computers may be made small enough to fit into a wristwatch and be powered from a watch battery. Personal computers, in various forms, are icons of the Information Age and are what most people think of as "a computer"; however, the most common form of computer in use today is the embedded computer. Embedded computers are small, simple devices that are used to control other devices—for example, they may be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft to industrial robot design, digital cameras, and children's toys. It was because of these three key tools, that i was able to accomplish all my work. The technology showcase flyer proved to be quite challenging, not because what i had to do on it was difficult, but because i needed to work solely on my creativity, in other words, i had to start from scratch... It was very entertaining however, being able to think up of things on my own and having that much creative freedom. I did find some of the work tedious however because since it was mostly using photoshop, sometimes i had to flatten an image in order to get it approved, and so if something wanted to be changed later on, i did not have the individual layers of the image, but one whole one instead, which meant that i needed to do about ten times the work, given the fact that i had to cut the image and then paste things, well basically do many many things... Aside from that, i needed to make the entire flyer look good, not just the logo, which is why i had to invent a creative way to arrange the text... in the end i came up with the idea of having a shark, which is the school mascot telling the main information, and then a banner for the types and kinds of technology that were going to be around during the showcase. In the end i think i did a great job at doing the technology shocase flyer, it came out great. Aside from that, i also had another project this cycle, and although it was not the main one, given the fact that most of the time was spent on the technology showcase flyer. The other project was working on the Caissa web page... all i did on this however was run a general spell check on all the pages, organize it, gather up all the pictures of each of the team players, and edit the Info on the DR page... I believe that the web page should be finished during cycle 3 given the fact that i am almost done. My only concern is how we are going to gather all the informations and get the pictures on the other teams that are not the CMS Sharks... that will be figured out later however...

this was a very productive and interesting cycle in which i was able to overcome many challenges and learn many new things... i was also able to fully recover my previous knowledge in both dreamweaver and photoshop. I am really looking forward to this new cycle, cycle 3, given the fact that i hope we finish the Caissa web page and have it up and running. I know on my part i will do everything possible to have the page up and running. I will continue working hard as always...

2/23/09

Today's class was very productive... The first few minust of the class however, did provide a challenge because i did not have access to the new caissa folder :S... and therefore i couldn't add any of the pictures... they someone fiuxed it and i did get access, but aparently not to the things saved inside the folder, so the next issue was that i could not save any of the changes i did on the pages... After all that was fixed, i was finally able to start working. What i did was that i dragged the folder entitled Caissa People into the folder that contained the whole website, so that when the website was published, the pictures in the Caissa People folder could be found... The next issue was resizing the pics, given the fact that every time i added a picture to a page, the image was huge, and when i tried to resize it, people's body and faces would get distorted..., so i finaly decided on a common measurement, which i used with each one of the girls all throughout the page, in order to facilitate my work. The measurment was 151 by 203... Aside from all those challenges, today was in my opinion a very productive class, because not only did i excersise my skills at problem solving, but we also hugely progressed on the web site. :D I am excited about the fact that in a few days the page will be done and all our hard work will have payed off. P:D

2/3/09

Today's class was a lot like the previous class. During this class period i was able to add new information to the player's profiles that came in... Also, the challenge this period was that some of the player's did not have pages created within the web site, and although creating them was not difficult, at times, since the names of each of the pages are so similar, i mixed the information up... but in the end i was able to manage, and those new players each have their very own page, and correct name and profile. I also began creating the home page for the varsity boys basketball, that has a list of all their names and links to their individual pages... I also re-named the pages so that all the files were more organized...

2/2/09

In today's class, the main challenge was remembering all my previous knowledge of dreamweaver, given the fact that i had not used it in quite a while... After i remembered it all however, i was able to get the hang of it, and effectively begin working on the Caissa 2009 web page. The things i got accomplished today were filling in some new information of the players that arrived, and creating a home page for the girl's varsity soccer team (Dominican Republic), that consisted of a list of all their names, and when you clicked on it you were redirected to that specific player's profile. I also scanned the logo of the shark that was drawn, and it is being debated wether or not we should use it as a static background for the entire page...