Web Design Student
Millikin University

Rob Gregory

Learning Review

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Hands On Training Tutorial Responses

Chapter 10

I think that in the future you will be able to surf the web with anything, ranging from your watch to your socks. Dreamweaver is extremely adaptable and I’m glad that it is available to do many formats. I think that this chapter also continues to glorify the wonder of CSS and all it can do for the web designer.

Chapter 8

This chapter helped me better understand the need for tables, I already knew that most of the structured layout on the web was because of tables, but I really never knew it was this simple yet so in depth. The ability to round and set tables up gives a whole new look to what I’ve been trying to accomplish

Web Design
Links Page Critique

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Chapter 9

I think layers are an interesting way to develop a site, it was familiar to me because of other programs that I use, but overall I think I prefer the uniform structure of CSS.

resume critique

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Chapter 7

Going into this chapter was expecting a “let’s learn how to type in a box” type of a lesson, although there was some of that, it turned out to be much more. I never really noticed how much of a difference line spacing made when reading on the web, but after reading this chapter I have a much deeper appreciation for it. I would never want to read all of the news stories online that I do if all the text were so scrunched, I think my brain would explode. Also the ability to make use of CSS for formatting makes it all much easier to handle when trying to do it on multiple pages. The flash section confused me a little. I think it’s one of those things that I’ll just have to go over and keep plugging away at.

Chapter 6

Phew! That chapter was a lot of information. CSS is going to be hard to get used to, but I can see how incredibly useful it will become once my pages start to become more in-depth. I can’t begin to fathom what this would be like without Dreamweaver, though, using code to do it without having visuals seems impossible to me. It’ll take me some time to get used to CSS but I think it will be time well spent.

A Favorite Website:

Web Address: http://www.mlb.com/

Site analysis

MLB.com is one of my favorite websites because I love baseball, and this site is the authority on the subject. I probly visit this site at least 3 times a day.
Orientation: This site is very easy to use as far as navigating around. There is a link to go to all your favorite teams sites, look up stats for every team and every player, see a complete schedule for any team, even make comparisons between individual players.

There is a very easy way to see what’s going on live, with live scores of games. A stat sheet that tells you the league leader in any category. In the middle of the page they have a highlighted section where you can see the biggest stories in baseball from the previous day or of what’s to come. There are also links to an online store where you can buy your favorite baseball gear and team wear.

Navigation: This site is very user friendly as far as navigation is concerned. They have a bar at the top for you to find what your looking for and if you’re still not sure they have an excellent search  bar available.

Interactivity: This site is made to be interacted with, flashy to keep your attention, and easy for the everyday person to look up statistics, schedules, and players. You can listen to games live or recorded games from your teams radio broadcasters. They even have a very easy way for you to stream the television broadcast of the game if you are away from home.

Chapter 5

Linking is awesome. As long as all your files organized and named properly then it makes it really easy not to be confused and to have perfect links every time with the point and drag function. Anchoring is also something that I will be able to use in the future for my independent case project.

Chapter 4

Chapter 4 seems pretty basic stuff. Inserting pictures and using the link function to attach them to your site. Good stuff.

Chapter 2

The basic point of chapters 1 and 2 in the Dreamweaver book was to give the user a quick run-down of the program so that the book could use more complex instructions later on without having to explain everything over and over again.

Chapter 1

1: If XHTML has a stricter set of rules for its structure, does that mean that you would have more freedom writing code in HTML?

2:  Which is better? Using Keyboard commands or Clicking with the mouse?