Exploring Dreamweaver - Reflection

    Dreamweaver is a web editor, a web editor is software used to create a webpage without having to use an HTML code. It’s a tool for people to enable them to create websites without having to use HTML at all. Although, not having the basic HTML skills could lead to problems. Adobe Dreamweaver was formerly Macromedia Dreamweaver it is an application originally created by Macromedia, and is now developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver has several features that make creating websites easier. On Dreamweaver you can insert multimedia, write text and do many things without knowing HTML code. I can also set paths that help me navigate through the computer and easily add files into Dreamweaver.
     We need Dreamweaver because it's an easy way to create websites and choose different color palettes and create different designs without having to know and the many complicated codes. Also, Dreamweaver isn’t time consuming you can easily create one web page without taking great amounts of time. You are able to work without having to write tones of HTML code. Dreamweaver is a great way to create websites without knowing HTML.

     Dreamweaver was a great way to create my Digital Portfolio because, like I said before, it’s not time consuming. Anytime I would need to update my Portfolio I could easily do it without feeling burdened of the fact that I am about to spend a lot of  and constantly have to write HTML code every time I need to update the portfolio. I also won’t need to know all codes in order to keep my Digital portfolio running in case I need to add something new; something I am not familiar with.

     The relationship between HTML and Dreamweaver is that they both utilise HTML. Dreamweaver is an application which is based on HTML. While someone is working on the application and creating a webpage Dreamweaver is basically writing the code as you work. The one and only difference between Dreamweaver and HTML is that when using HTML you have to write the actual code, it’s the actual language-it’s not an application like Dreamweaver but whereas Dreamweaver the code is being written and recorded for you as you work. Dreamweaver is built on HTML so not knowing HTML could lead to some problems. When there is an issue like you don’t what to do for layout or how or to change the size of the text on Dreamweaver all you need to do is go back to the basics and look a the HTML code and if you know the code and you can add what you need. Sometimes Dreamweaver may not be doing what you want it to you can always check the code, find the route of the problem and fix the issue. Not knowing HTML can lead to problems when you are using an application like Dreamweaver.

     The final product of my Ugandan Website was pretty good and I was pleased with it. There were some unique aspects to my website and there’s always something I would like to improve. The first thing I like about my website was my choice of colors. I thought my choice of colors was really good because my text was really visible because there was a significant contrast between my backgrounds and my text. I also thought that I chose my colors well in terms of organization. I was able separate certain parts of my page from others by using different colors-an example of this can be seen with my table. I basically used colors to help with organization so people would know that which pictures and text belonged to each other; people wouldn’t be confused and they’ll know which text belongs to which picture. I also thought that my pictures and text were organized and not all over the place. The aspects I would improve would be the uniformity. I want my website to feel put together next time by adding a similar border on each webpage so that the website looks as one. I don’t want to have the same colors on each page because it looks boring and there are some colors that look good on certain pages. For example Green looks good with food, it makes it looks appealing. Overall, I think my website looks good and even though there are some minor improvements it still is pretty great.

Sorry that my Reflection is late but I don't have internet at home right now so I'm doing this in school.

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Exploring Web Editors

     A web editor is a software used to create a webpage without having to use an HTML code. The relationship between the two programs, web editing and HTML, is that they both are used to create web pages. One example of a web editor could be Adobe Dreamweaver. This program was designed by Macromedia to create websites. It has some great features such as being able to manipulate pixel-level design, you can drag and drop files from other programs such as photoshop, you can also upload FLV files onto dreamweaver and you can do this without typing in an HTML code. Other examples of wb editors can be CoffeeCup and Namo.

     A website and a web page are two different things, a web page is one, single page in a whole website. Let's say that there's a website about tea, there are many different categories about tea such as the flavour, the fields etc. You can put each subtopic on a web page such as have one page on flavour another on the fields etc. Web pages are many in a single website and there are usually many links leading up to different web pages.

     To view a website you need a browser, a browser opens up websites. Like internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox, this is what we usually use to open up websites, browsers are the only progarm that can open websites.
    A web server has two definitions, it can be a a computer and a software. A computer web serever basically refers to the computer or virtual machine running a program. A web server software is a computer program that delivers content, such as Web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) using the internet. We use servers to create web pages because it sends our information to the internet and creates a web page.
     A domain name is used to find organizations and computers and addresses on the internet, basically IP addresses. Domain names are used in  URL's to identify particular web pages. For example if the URL is www.shreyareddyiscool.com the domain name would be shreyareddyiscool.

Exploring HTML

     HTML stands for Hyper - Text  Markup Language. HTML is basically a computer language created to allow website creation. Later, anyone connected to the internet can view your website. HTML involves special codes and punctuation, it is relatively easy to learn.

     The reason HTML is used to create websites is that, a website can't be created using Word, it's a bit more complex than that. With HTML you can upload pictures, draw tables, write lists and lots of crazy things. It's also a way of communicating to the computer telling the system what to do.

     I think HTML, in my opinion, is one of the best options if you're making a digital portfolio. This is because you can control what you want to do: determine positions of content, color, font, the general look of the website, things you can't do on blogger. Also, when compared to a normal blog an HTML website looks more professional than an ordinary blog. It's also fun, i like love working with HTML.

     I like my very first website, I like the colors I used, the color combinations, the placement of the content, the general look of the two pages looked pretty good to me. I have my pictures and did basically what was required. I felt that I could improve the picture I used on my first page, I used a picture of a dolphin, i love dolphins but I still felt a picture of me would have been better. I wanted to change the colours of my hyperlinks but for some reason, i didn't. I feel that one thing that I would really like to work on next time is using multicolors, different fonts and different styles, like transitions. One thing that I thought I did well was color combinations. Overall, I think I did pretty good but  I still feel that there's always room for improvement.

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My Digital Portfolio Layout

     This is how I see the layout of my Digital Portfolio; what I plan to create in the future.

Zach's Digital Portfolio

Zach's portfolio is about academics from Grade  9-12. He has included all subjects in which he shows samples of his work. The categories are Applied learning, Mathematics, The Arts, English, Foreign Language, Health, Science, Social Studies and Study Skills. Zach was very organized, he has great colour combinations, his text was readable and everything was eay to find. He limited his pictures and on one link the colour combination was a bit scary but overall he did fantastic.

http://www.richerpicture.com/dp/zachary/index.htm

Jenna M's Digital Portfolio

Jenna's portfolio was about her Senior project. It was about outdoor recreation. She included the steps she took to make it all happen, fieldwork, her research paper and her self evaluation. Her website is a bit too carmped up on the 'letter of Introduction' tab and the colours are abit too bright. She has limted her pictures and only used her potrait on the introduction. The good parts of the website is that later on she spaced it out, it's organized and her colour palette go well together. Her links are limited, which is good, there are not too many. Everything is easy to find. This portfolio was not too bad.

http://www.richerpicture.com/dp/jenna/index.htm

Sarah D's Digital Portfolio

Sarah created her digiatl portfolio to display her internship. She interned at the Eagle's Outlet. She was to maintain the finances and complete the accounting tasks for the store. She included her personal skills, accomplishments, her mission statement, letters of recommendation, reflection log, resume, personal information but mostly focused on her internship. Her website was not too bad although the colours looked cheap and dull she manged to kepp the website organized. She had a side bar and a few main links which made things easy to find. Overall, it was pretty good.

http://www.richerpicture.com/dp/sarah/barrington_hs/index.html

Digital Portfolio – Research

A Digital portfolio is an organised collection of work or pieces written or produced ovetime. The content can vary depending on the purpose and audience of the didital portfolio. It is usually created to show improvement or growth overtime. These are not standardized test portfolios but are more of learning experience's and personal achievements. Portfllio's allow peope can share displays of students growth and performance without test scores.  There are also advantages and disadvantages of digital portfolio's. One advantage could be that they are easily accessible and reliable. One disadvantage could be that people could plagiarise work and pass it off as their own.