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.

Portfolio

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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.

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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/

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.

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

New job

I'll be graduating in December so I've started to look for a new job. I have quite a bit of experience teaching a variety of age groups from infants through adults, in a variety of lessons, from acclimating babies to the water to conducting financial literacy workshops. Now I would like to work in a public library setting, preferably as a children's librarian.

I enjoy working in the private as well as the public sector, so when I saw a posting for a children's manager at a local bookstore I applied for it. Much to my surprise I was offered the position and I'll begin next week! I'm excited and I think it will be a good opportunity for me. I'm looking forward to my new challenge.

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