Personal/Personal Web Site
Our class was given the task of creating own own personal/professional web site. When the assignment was first given, I thought I was going to absolutely have a break down. I just knew that having to do all the coding and typing was going to frustrate me and make me want to break my computer into a thousand pieces. However, after I actually got started that was certainly not the case. My web site has gone through quite a few changes since I first started, but I am pretty happy with the finished product.
My first page was an absolute mess. It was plain with not many words on it and the few words that were there did not really say anything important. I tried to add a nice background to the page, but it took too long to load up so I just decided to make a plain black background and use white colored font. I thought that looked really nice and it looked so much better than the multi-colored background that I had. That was basically the only major change that I made to my web site. The reason that I decided to change all that came from http://jeffglover.com/ss/ssmain.php. It is a webpage building website that tells you what you should and should not include on a webpage. Jeff Glover says on one of his sucky pages "A solid background is always a good choice for your web pages. It provides an easy reading surface for your reader and it doesn't distract the user from the main focus of your page: Your text!" That makes a whole lot of sense. That is why I basically decided to go for the more simplistic format. Now my webpage looks good.
After I got used to everything I bagan making links to other places around the web and to my own web site. I even downloaded pictures and posted them to my site. The biggest help to the development of my site was the Sucky to Savvy site. It was easy to navigate, understand, and it was fun to go through. Building a webpage is not an easy task, but it was a learning experience. My webpage is a representation of me and it is a part of me. It is something that I never thought I could do on my own and I am very proud.
Works Cited.
Jeff Glover. Sucky to Savvy. September 2000. April 2003. http://jeffglover.com/ss/ssmain.php.