Monday, November 24th

What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Do you have any traditions? Go in to detail about your plans for the 5 day weekend.

For Thanksgiving we are going to my grandma's house. Every year, we have Thanksgiving with the same people but the location changes. We have a rotation of it being held at our house, my cousin's house, my Aunt and Uncles house, and my grandma's house. Another tradition that we have is we get a Christmas tree and start setting up Christmas lights and decorations. As soon as Thanksgiving is over we immediately transition to Christmas.

Thursday, November 20th

Go out and look up a what all goes on a resume website. What can you find? Include an example image if possible.

It is a good idea for all job seekers to have a personal resume website. A resume website should have information like interests, skills, hobbies, previous jobs, education, and more. A resume website should have things that an employer could see and would help to convince them to hire you. It should have a detailed "About Me" section where you talk, in detail, about yourself. A resume website should be very detailed.

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Monday, November 17th

Consider the quote below. What exactly do you think it means and how does it relate to Web Design?

When you design something, you must also consider how it works rather than just how it looks and feels. Consider a web page, it has to work before you can focus on how it looks. If the website doesn't work than it doesn't matter how it looks. A good design is effective in looks and how it works. When a design only looks good, it isn't a complete design. Steve Jobs and his company, Apple, make products that not only look good, they work extremely well. For example, The iPhone, has a sleek flawless design, but is also arguably the best smartphone on the market.

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User Experience- The overall experience of a person (user) who is using a product or service such as a website. A good experience may lead to multiple uses of the product or service past the original one.

Thursday, November 13th

Blog Post of the Day:
Reflect on your learning this semester so far in this class. Think about the first day you walked in to this room until right now. What have you learned about Web Design? What have you learned beyond Web Design? Explain yourself.

From the time I walked in this room, till now, I have an understanding of coding websites. When this semester began I had a small idea of HTML and CSS and now I would say that I have a decent understanding of how to use both. I have also learned more about the layouts and color schemes of websites and all of the work that goes in to creating a solid site. 

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Friday, November 7th

Define the following terms on your blog. Do not copy and paste definitions. Site where you got your definition.

FTP - File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet, allows for web pages to be transferred to a users browser

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/F/ftp.html

Web Server - A web server is a computer system that processes information and distributes it on the world wide web.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_server.html

Web Hosting - Web hosting is providing space for people to store their website files and allow them to be accessible on the world wide web.

Web Hosting Companies:
GoDaddy.com
Web.com
justhost.com

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_host.html

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Monday, November 3rd

Tell me about your weekend. Give me details and photos!

Over the weekend, I traveled to St. Louis, Missouri for a sneaker convention. I went with a few of my friends, with the goal of buying and selling some sneakers. we had table which we used to display all the shoes that we brought and people would walk around and ask about prices or if we wanted to trade. The event was held at Union Station. We had to leave Kansas at 7:00 in the morning in order to make the 11:30 set up time. We arrived back home at around 11:00 at night. It was very fun even though I didn't sell as much as I wanted too.

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Monday, October 20th

Tell me about your weekend. Share pics!

Over the weekend I spent most of my time hanging out with my friends and doing a bunch of random things. I didn't do much hard work and spent the whole weekend taking it easy. It was very enjoyable. I wish all weekends could be as enjoyable as this one was.

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