CIS 212 Portfolio

Assignments

Week Three Practice
During week three, I learned about Dreamweaver's site management. I also learned how to manage files (create, rename, delete, move) and view files on the server.
Week Four Practice
In week four, I learned the basics of using the page properties in Dreamweaver, so that rather than just being black text against a white background, my text, links, headings and background can have color.
Week Five Practice
Week five was the beginning of really learning to use CSS in order to create a website with good color schemes and organization.
Week Six Practice
For the week six practice, creating a CSS style sheet was reinforced, as well as a few other tricks in working with CSS, such as editing more specific properties within a CSS rule.
Image Lab
In this lab, I learned that it is possible to resize and resample images within Dreamweaver, rather than taking the image to Photoshop or Fireworks to do the editing.

Lesson One
Lesson one out of the textbook was a good introduction to Dreamweaver's features for CS5. The lesson taught me the basics of HTML, and how web sites work.
Lesson Two
The second lesson went over adding additional web pages for a website, organizing files, setting up a site definition and downloading and uploading to a server.
Lesson Three
Lesson three taught me how to preview a webpage to make sure the links and images work on the web, as well as how to add text, links, lists and images to the webpage. The lesson also started to briefly touch on understanding CSS styles.
Lesson Four
In lesson four, I learned more in depth how CSS works, and how to create a style sheet that I can use in future web pages. I also was able to understand the different CSS rules a little better as well.

Hand-coded HTML Practice Page
During the hand-coded practice, I learned more effective tags to use the content in my websites. I also learned a few new HTML codes to use, and that xHTML is much more strict than HTML coding.
Graphics Project
This project was great for teaching me how to create a nice roll-over button, rather than using a plain image or a link. A roll-over button adds a nice element to the web page.