Well…it’s crunch time…and I still don’t have a solid ‘theme’ for my site. I’m trying to pull something together. It’s really slow going and we have to have something to show the class on Wednesday night, April 14th…I’ll get something up, but it won’t be slick nor full of bells and whistles! Something about me…some of the challenges that I’ve overcome in this life. I guess I’ve come a long way.

I really want to get where I’m not ‘frightened’ by technology; building this web site has been challenging. The class was so FULL of information, it’s almost hard to sift through it all to find exactly what I want. Found some awesome pictures on http://www.nasa.gov and also at http://www.hubblesite.org, trying to use them for backgrounds, trying to find out how to stretch the picture so it isn’t ’tiled’ in the page.

Oh well…it’s almost over…I’ll have something on Wednesday, but it won’t be fantastic…just basic.

I guess I’m not so good with this blogging thing…I guess if I was more organized, I’d have written more.

The Lesson for week 11 was really kind of overwhelming…there were some absolutely amazing sites; one of my favorites was Moon Giant. It is a real-time view of the moon as it passes over earth…simply amazing! http://moongiant.com/

There was another that I thought had beautiful colors, I believe it’s a Danish site; http://www.webfeinschliff.de/

The Lesson 11 sites were all so thoroughly amazing! The one that Kelli mentioned in regard to the European Wrangler site…so cool! The zipper opens another page where you can play with the guy…make him dance to the music. The following pages, you could do all kinds of things…the next page, you rip the guys shirt off! You can make him roll around on the ground, fall backwards, jerk him by the arm, and pull him off a chair! Crazy! I loved playing on that site! http://eu.wrangler.com/bluebell/#/collection

It’s amazing the sites that people create with interactivity. I can’t begin to fathom how games are coded…all I can say is wow! Dr. Simon has shown me more about the Internet than I ever imagined was there…and this is just a glimpse at technology.

If  I ever get good with Dreamweaver, I hope to build a site for children once I complete this degree and get a position in a library. The most important thing now is to continue playing with my web site, changing it and letting it evolve as I learn more.

One thing that would be really cool, is to see some of the USF student sites that are killer! Dr. Simon, can you help with this?

Onto my creation!