Good Advice

For the students taking CS1300 next semester, here is some advice.
Read the notes before and after class to make sure you've got all the homework done and get homework done before class, Ms. Belisle provides a lot of resources on the class notes page so use them, this class gave me skills that I used outside of the classroom, so pay attention, it may come in handy.

Beautiful Websites!

In Computer Skills Class, everyone created websites on a subject of their choice, many people chose to make the website about themselves and it was very interesting learning about my classmates. Three of my favorite websites included: Nicole McCarter's, Teka Nicholas' and Rory Davidson's.
I liked Nicole's website, her explanations of her pictures were very good and gave good insight. Her addition of her personal poetry was a nice touch to the website.
Teka's website was amazing. It was obvious that she worked very hard on it and it looked very professional. Her nav bar was very nice and her pictures se ction was very good.
I liked the backgrounds in Rory's website, they were funny and his section on his background/culture was very enjoyable.
I really enjoyed seeing all the pictures on each website, it was very interesting seeing everyone's family and friends.

My Website!!!

Please Visit My Website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~asoto

When going through the process of making my website, it was not as easy as I had anticipated it would be. Using Microsoft Expression Web was a huge help though, I cannot imagine trying to hand code my entire website. Within my website, I am most proud of my music page, it is not one of my main pages but I think the content is fun and interesting. However, I would liked to have made my backgrounds more decorative. i think my biggest technical challenge was editing and adding pictures to the website and my biggest design challenge was trying to get my tables to line up correctly and center. I think I would like to show my website to a few of my family members once I have it perfect. I will probably make another site in the future for a class project or perhaps my own enjoyment.

My Pic that Lies

My picture is of a dinosaur in front of Northrup, with a backpack in its mouth, going to class. The picture originated as a picture taken of Northrup, and I added the pictures of the dinosaur and backpack from the web.I manipulated this because i thought it would be funny. This picture is not harmful, it is not political or controversial in any way. This picture did not really relate to the article I read.

Citation: Lu, Wei1, Chung, Fu-Lai, Lu, Hongtao, Choi, Kup-Sze. "Detecting fake images using watermarks and support vector machines".Computer Standards & Interfaces30.3. Web. 13 April 2010.

HTML Code

When creating a website, knowing HTML code is essential. There are programs available to web creators to make the process of making a web site easier like Dream Weaver or Kompozer. But a basic knowledge of the way HTML works allows web designers to fix likely problems quickly and understand the process behind the way a website is built. These programs may also have glitches from time to time and knowing HTML would avoid many headaches over not being able to access these time savers.

PowerPoint Presentations!

In class we presented the PowerPoint projects over our desired field of study and a few really stood out to me. One that was very well made and informative was over the preservation of Terra Cotta Warriors. The background music worked very well with the content and the themes and colors used for each slide were very nice. One other presentation that I liked was a presentation on Philosophy. The speaker seemed very passionate about his field, the video within the presentation was enjoyable and interesting the layout was also very nice. The pictures used were well graphed and the layout was lively and bright.