It has finally come to this. After all the stress and all the satisfaction of being able to say I know how to design a website, my semester has come to an end. Both of my websites now look pretty good, or at least i think so. I tried to correlate both of them, my personal and professional, by making them look similar. Both of them incorporate a theme of grass, although the color displays are different. Since I consider myself more of an "English person" than a "Writing person" at this point in my life, i used the of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. While looking at my other classmates' websites and through talking with them, i realized that I had a misconception about what we were supposed to do with our personal sites. It turns out that I spent a lot more time on my personal site than most other people, but no matter. I think I actually want to expand my personal site to making a linking webpage to words I read that I don't know what they mean. I've had this idea for a while and I have been periodically looking up words that I do not know what them mean, but I wanted to make a place where I could actually see them and view them from anywhere. Why not my website? It's just an idea, but I have been working on getting Adobe Dreamweaver so I can work on my site from anywhere.
It's interesting. While starting this semester I thought that my writing for the web class was going to be more frustrating than anything else, but it turns out that I actually really enjoyed making my own website and making sort of like "me" or at least the perception I have of myself. enjoyed working on it and look forward to adding to it continuously over the course of next semester as well. So wooo! check me out online @ www.jtbowe.com
Monday, December 20, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
catch-up
Let me catch you up.
My work on my website continues. I find myself in a constant paradox. When I think my website is looking good and caught up to where it should be, it turns out it isn't; when I'm stressed out wondering what is going on and how I do something, it works out that I really know what I'm doing and am only a few steps away from getting to where I want to be.
Right now I'm struggling with a few different things. Recently I have been working on making my website look more compact and professional; basically I've been combining div-tags together to make links not stand so far out against the background. I've also finally got a background that I believe can coexist and not look out of place with my page's banner. My next point of business for the rest of this week is to post and repost some pictures I have taken to look neater; I need to post some pictures that make me look more professional (for some reason in ever picture I am in it looks as if I am not a professional person...Maybe I need to get a haircut and wear nicer clothes...the haircut part will come eventually, but might have to wait a little longer). I also need to figure out a more productive way of making my resume not a picture, but something that I can actually change.
These are just a few things I have been and will continue to work on through this weekend so that my website will actually resemble something of a successful website. Go me!
My work on my website continues. I find myself in a constant paradox. When I think my website is looking good and caught up to where it should be, it turns out it isn't; when I'm stressed out wondering what is going on and how I do something, it works out that I really know what I'm doing and am only a few steps away from getting to where I want to be.
Right now I'm struggling with a few different things. Recently I have been working on making my website look more compact and professional; basically I've been combining div-tags together to make links not stand so far out against the background. I've also finally got a background that I believe can coexist and not look out of place with my page's banner. My next point of business for the rest of this week is to post and repost some pictures I have taken to look neater; I need to post some pictures that make me look more professional (for some reason in ever picture I am in it looks as if I am not a professional person...Maybe I need to get a haircut and wear nicer clothes...the haircut part will come eventually, but might have to wait a little longer). I also need to figure out a more productive way of making my resume not a picture, but something that I can actually change.
These are just a few things I have been and will continue to work on through this weekend so that my website will actually resemble something of a successful website. Go me!
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
let's go blog!
So I got my blog up....again!
I know you're probably thinking "again?" and I should clarify some things. I am by no means an expert at blogging. The think is that I have had a blog before: it was required for my Film Media and Television Studies course I took while abroad in Auckland, New Zealand during the Fall 09. For that course, it required sporadically posting throughout the semester about different current issues that related back to the lessons that we were taught in class. For this class, it was basically just posting homework assignments on the blog so that our professor could see all of them together. I think that he wanted us, as students, to look at other peoples' stories, but this didn't happen. I was abroad. I wasn't too focused on reading my peers homework assignments as I was focused on exploring a different part of the country.
So I have clarified that even though I have "blogged" before, I haven't actually used blogs for the purpose in which I intend to use them over the course of this blog. For this blog, I don't want it to be the same. I want to share what's going on in my life during my senior year before graduation. It's a very turbulent, exciting, and worrisome time that I only get to experience once. I want to talk about current issues yes, but also my life as an English and Writing student. So here we go, this is the start of my blog. Let's go!
I know you're probably thinking "again?" and I should clarify some things. I am by no means an expert at blogging. The think is that I have had a blog before: it was required for my Film Media and Television Studies course I took while abroad in Auckland, New Zealand during the Fall 09. For that course, it required sporadically posting throughout the semester about different current issues that related back to the lessons that we were taught in class. For this class, it was basically just posting homework assignments on the blog so that our professor could see all of them together. I think that he wanted us, as students, to look at other peoples' stories, but this didn't happen. I was abroad. I wasn't too focused on reading my peers homework assignments as I was focused on exploring a different part of the country.
So I have clarified that even though I have "blogged" before, I haven't actually used blogs for the purpose in which I intend to use them over the course of this blog. For this blog, I don't want it to be the same. I want to share what's going on in my life during my senior year before graduation. It's a very turbulent, exciting, and worrisome time that I only get to experience once. I want to talk about current issues yes, but also my life as an English and Writing student. So here we go, this is the start of my blog. Let's go!
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