DDSGN 220 Assignment #14

Our online assignment had us create an online HTML based newsletter for The Spud Goodman Show. We used tables in Adobe Dreamweaver to create our layout, and linked our site using true source links to an online server.

Again I had forgotten a lot of simple Dreamweaver skills, so the fact that it was an online lecture really saved my butt. I aimed to just finish the assignment and to get everything working, so I don't necessarily expect full points as I didn't do anything outstanding. I did however, learn more technical HTML skills.

Using tables, as well as some basic tags for alignment and colors, I created a layout similar to our teacher's example. The most technical (and frustrating) part however was getting the links to work. After connecting and hosting files on an online remote server provided by the class, We had to set and change the file paths from local to remote.

DDSGN 220 Assignment #13

This week we created websites using the content management system, Wordpress.

A screencap of the home page

My site (https://jkim220.wordpress.com), contains numerous photos of things that I personally find inspiring and beautiful. Pictures of the ocean, marine life, and the sky. I aimed to create a simple site that had large thumbnails of high resolution images that were sorted by page.

The technical skills used to create the site weren't too complicated, but I learned some new things about Wordpress itself. The interface and navigating the actual content editor took some getting used to, but all of the options were there. Creating new pages, themes, and posts were easy enough to do once you found the right buttons. From there, the webpage / post editor was similar to blogger, with simple video/image upload and text options.

I feel like I did okay on the assignment. Nothing too impressive or flashy, but I met the criteria and explored / navigated Wordpress well enough.