My CIS 212 Portfolio

Final Project

I am so excited about having a real web page. It still needs a lot of work - but the main structure is there, and I LOE templates. Thank you for the pointers and for the "learning."

Final Project Proposal

The final project proposal helped me to focus and organize my efforts to design and build my web site. Prior to writing the proposal ... my attempts to work on the site were scattered ... and I was jumping from page to page. In particular, the flow chart was very helpful.

Graphics Project

The graphics project page includes a description of what I learned with each graphic (also listed as a Week-8 activity below).

HTML By Hand

HTML code by hand is often the most efficient and most effective way to troubleshoot. I cannot imagine designing and developing a web site without the ability to code by hand.

Week 3

Week 3 Practice: Set up the basics and played with floating divs (I like floating divs). I learned that the floating divs must be contained in a div "container box", and I need to set the height of these container boxes.

Week 4

Worked with style sheets to create the page you are viewing. Added the bullets to the links in the "header" segment (by the Pi symbol). Created some CSS Style Rules to indent text etc. Set up the automatic date in the footer.

Week 5

Worked on this web page. Modified page properties to set the background color, font color and size, and to get rid of the blue underlined hyperlinks. I also created a couple of CSS Style Rules to customize the link colors for each section of my web page. Edited the background images in Photoshop.

Week 6

Week 6 Practice - this lab was great. I figured out how I'm going to set up the crumbs on my web site.

Week 7

The Image Lab is a time saver! Wow - we can resize images within Dreamweaver!!!!. It's amazing how easy it is to crop an image in Dreamweaver as well ... I've been doing my "resizing and cropping" in Photoshop ... and toggling between programs ... transferring files etc. It's so much easier to take care of it all in one program.

Week 8

Graphics Project Page includes a rollover button.

Week 9

A roll-over button is included in the week 8 graphics project. My hobby is hiking with my dogs after work, and they're so frustrated with the amount of time I'm spending at the keyboard these days, I don't think they'll tolerate another project. My faculty web site is consuming more time than it should ... I'm spending hours agonizing over the variations in shades for the background or which fractal pic I like for which page or how to set up the hierarchy of the pages ... etc. etc. etc. I can imagine that I would be more obsessed when trying to take photos of the "boys" and then agonizing over "their" pages. So I'll have to come up with another hobby ... one that I won't care about when I make the page.

Week 10

Finished the final project proposal. It really focused my efforts and ideas in designing and creating my faculty web site. Thank you.

Week 11

Ugh ... I'm so sorry ... no Hobby Project. The dogs just said "no" (grin ... sigh ... grin).

Weeks 12 through 14

Working on the final project. Since I only need to credit Junpei Sekino for his fractal art ... and since all my pics are either just a cut-and-paste of his fractal art or a doctored up version that I tweaked in photoshop to make a background banner etc, it seems wrong NOT to credit him immediately and often. So rather than opening a different page for the credit, I'm going to see if I can get away with crediting him in the footer on every page and under the main "fractal pic" on the home page and each course's main page. Hmmm ... I could be living on the edge here. Ugh.

Weeks 15 & 16

The final project ... will most likely never really be final, but it is so much fun. Thank you again.