Pat's+Homepage


 * Wednesday May 5 (Cinco de Mayo!)**

So I've finally got my personal homepage to the point of completion. I have added a links section that I feel signifies people who have influenced me and who I really just wanted to link up to in the end. (Sorry Liz I threw you in there because you helped me out so much on the page, any massive spike you get in readers are probably my doing).

I feel like I cover quite a bit in my practicum paper but, I'll just say it again here.

I enjoyed working on my page quite a bit. I thought that it was a great exercise in working through the ins-and-outs of social media and, importantly, realizing just how difficult it is in the end. I now understand why some people with awesome website ideas are rich. However, I also understand that you have to have a REALLY good idea. It doesn't take a ton of time to make an amateur website that, in the end, looks bad. It can take a ton of work and time to just make one that's presentable enough to keep people's attention.


 * Tuesday April 27**

With LOST on an off week I've got a TON of time to devote to my homepage. I've got all the arms of my page finished up now. Tonight I went through and finished the section on my favorite music.

Now, my main goal is to try to locate some other people's homepages to link up to. I'm considering connecting to them by e-mailing them with particular questions about their sites.

That's my goal for now on though. We'll see how it goes.

For now, my homepage can be found [|here]


 * Monday April 26**

WHOA. I have not updated in quite a while. I've been super busy since I gave my presentation, so I guess I'll just run over some of the things I've done since!

For my presentation I got together the my main page as well as my page pertaining to my favorite tv shows. I thought it was important to show it was possible to click through the links. I thought that the page turned out pretty well for class, although it took a ton of work on my side to make something work so simply.

Just recently I got back to working on the page and added on my favorite books. I'm experimenting with different page layout techniques on this link and am finding it just as fluid. I'm also adding external hyperlinks in this time.

Now, my main goal is just to be able to connect to other people's homepages!


 * Sunday March 7

Today was a fairly important day in my steps to create my homepage: I finally learned how to make a banner for my webpage. EVERY single site and tutorial that I've looked at so far has stressed the importance of having a banner for my page. So here you'll find my first attempt:



This also may sound slightly hypocritical of me, since I have posted a few sites and videos that I thought were helpful before. However I think I've realized that those videos were for the previous version of Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver CS3, not the current version, Dreamweaver CS4. Its totally my mistake. However, this has caused me to switch the tutorials that I was following and, thankfully, find a tutorial that was much more helpful. The site was [|Free Computer Tech] and they happened to be really helpful, even though their tutorial voice sounded like an 8 year old.

Monday March 1**

Hey again everyone. Today was the first day that I was able to get into the lab (and away from my 5 year old, slow Apple Powerbook) to begin with work on my website. So far I think I've decided to combine a lot of my ideas into one and, in particular, make the website just about myself. I know it seems a little self centered but I figured that if I managed to put a few pages together, each covering an interest of mine, I'd be off to a pretty solid fun start.

Anyways, I've been going through the YouTube videos that I've found covering Dreamweaver. Each has seemed pretty helpful to me so far, with the understanding that I knew so little to begin with that I was only going to learn lots.

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Either way, I thought I'd post a few pictures of what my first foray into Dreamweaver left me with:



This is the initial Dreamweaver page that I've been learning to navigate.

The other place that I knew I was going to have to have some experience was the UW's My WebSpace feature. I'm not very familiar with it but have heard good things and am sure it should be about what I'm looking for. This is just an image of the site for those of you who aren't familiar with the site (even though we've all got one):



My plan is to being work on my homepage tomorrow or so. We'll see how things end up looking after a bit of work.


 * Tuesday February 22**

Hey everyone! This is where I'm going to be posting my progress with my homepage. Since this is something I've never really done before, I think that it'll be good to see where the process goes from here.

First off, I needed to pick a topic for my page. I came up with a few ideas and figured I'd post them here before I get completely started.
 * I just got back from study abroad in Sydney, Australia. I also took a lot of pictures and figured I could make a photo journal of my trip.
 * I'm in my 5th year in college and figured I could post some kind of resume/ personal marketing information for my career options.
 * I could potentially use the site to cover information about some of my favorite shows, such as //Lost// or //How I Met Your Mother//

I feel I have more options that I could look into and, if you have any ideas, feel free to comment on the wiki, I'm open to pretty much anything.

Along these same lines, I'm not very familiar with the Dreamweaver system. I feel like this is where Youtube will really help me out with its instruction tutorials. Here is one of the first ones that I'll be looking into:


 * Dreamweaver Tutorial**

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