Friday, August 1, 2008

Link to my portfolio

Well we are winding down to the end of the semester, and our final assignment was a portfolio of all our class projects. Here's a link if you'd like to see how it looks. You may experience trouble with the link to WisePlus. I believe it's an issue with the site, and not with the link.

Hope you like my work.
http://www.pitt.edu/~mas274/SimonsMJ_LIS2600Portfolio.html

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Creating a web site using Dreamweaver

This YouTube video discusses "Creating a Basic Web Site". It has some helpful hints about 4 types of websites, their purpose, and how to approach your design.





Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Portfolio

Adobe DreamweaverImage via Wikipedia

I've put together a portfolio of my work for this class using Dreamweaver, and I'm pleased with the results. I anticipated difficulty linking the assignments but I didn't have any trouble with the links. Of course, I may get a shock when I actually put it on to the server but for now I think it looks pretty good.

Oh, I see Zemanta has shown up again. It's been mia lately.


Zemanta Pixie

Saturday, July 26, 2008

CSS

Our most recent tech lesson has to do with CSS and style sheets. I found the (CSS) Zen Garden and I think it is a beautiful site with excellent style sheet examples available to its readers.

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Web page

I completed my web page using an external CSS style sheet without too much aggravation. I read through the very helpful tutorial reading assignments and I thought "I can do this". After a few false starts I did do it, and I thought it looked pretty good too.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Social media

I'm working on ideas using social media to attract customers to our children's book events. I ran across this quote to describe social media "it is simply about finding the best way to communicate with an audience. Social media consists of the same content already in use: text, audio, images, and video. The difference lies in its ability to open up new channels of communication." in an article from Digital Web magazine titled "Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy" by Britt Parrott (http://www.digital-web.com/articles/
social_media_to_web_content_strategy/)



Reasons to Blog

I saw this on video on the LIS class blog, and I wanted to make sure I could find it in the future. It's from Teacher Tube and it's titled "Why Let Students Blog?".

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=79778e9f140b78621d7f&msg
=You%20must%20be%20logged%20in%20to%20use%20the%20Feature
%20Video%20request