The End Is Near!!! (happy dance)

Well, peeps, we've reached the final stretch. The last mile. The end of the road. However you want to call it, the point is, we made it! We've learned or, in some probable cases, expounded on the skills to create a website from the cyber-ground up. Everything I learned has been awesome, yet it reaffirms my belief that this isn't something that I'd want to do for a living. Maybe as a side-job, if I can get good enough.

Now comes the hard parts. At least for me. Finishing my Course Project, and remembering everything that I've learned over these hectic, drama filed two months for the final exam. I've seen snippets of some awesome looking projects, and I hope everything works out for everyone.

Good luck everybody and happy coding!

It's All in the Scripting!

Javascript is what gives webpages that extra 'oomph'. It's used to include the non-static functions that are so helpful. A variety of things for a variety of reasons. With Javascript, you can keep the date current, as well as the time. You can even have a counter on your page. We will be implementing some of these 'can haves' in our lab (as usual), especially the date feature. We will also be counting down to New Year's and using jQuery for the countdown. This is looking to be an interesting week.

Form this, form that...

And now it's time for forms!

Forms are used all throughout the web. From registration forms to checkout forms. Even our login pages are a type of form. This week's lab will actually have a great impact on my course project. Making a checkout form will be essential to my little web store. Having worked heavily with databases, I've used, created and queried forms for years now, but this will be the first time that I've made one using HTML.

I wonder how difficult it would be to connect the html form with a database table (code-wise).

One more week in...

After being unfortunately, and regrettably, MIA last week, I'm back to work. This week, we're going to be making website slideshows. Always interesting when I've come across them, and especially useful for visual lists. I've decided to use my own photos, but I'm torn between pictures of Hawaii (from my trip), or pictures from some of the shows I've worked at the Convention Center (auto/motorcycle/AwesomeCon)

A little help with the photo APA citings would be appreciated as well.

Although I added the ability to change the language of the page last week, I haven't made any changes to the blog this week. I prefer the simpler sites, and I actually like it the way it is. Maybe I'll find something to add/subtract later on (in the week/month).

Adventures in Hawaii

So, I've seen the occasional personal post along with the class posts, and I thought I'd join in the fun. I recently went to Hawaii (before the volcano) to visit my sister, who'd just had her second child. It was awesome, and I was nearly in tears when I had to come back. I caught up with my sister and her husband, played with the baby and grew dinosaurs out of Easter eggs. Although a rainy day did curtail some adventures, I had a great time with the snorkeling and the luau and the general hanging out anyway.

Cascading Styles

It's week 2, and we're learning about cascading styles. Formatting the background and fonts and such of the text on the webpage. We've got embedded css, which is written directly into the .html file and external css, which is written on a separate file and linked into the .html file. For the moments when you only want to apply style to a single instance of an element, there are inline styles, which is also embedded.

In our lab, we're experimenting these options. I'm thankfully about half done, as evidenced below

Hello out there!

My name is Mekea, and this is my first, and probably only, blog. I'm a Security Officer for Events, mostly at Convention Centers and Hotels, so my schedule can get really crazy at times. Happily single with blessedly no kids, I am the proud aunt of four, with the most recent being only a month old.

I've done some dabbling on creating webpages. Never for any reason, just to try it, but this will be the first time really getting into it, so I'm kinda looking forward to it. Or I would have been if the first lab we had to do hadn't been about myself.

I've been on computers long enough to have typed out and printed my math homework on MS-DOS (don't judge me), and I haven't really taken my fingers off of a keyboard in nearly 20 years.

I started DeVry as an EET student, as I have always enjoyed building my own desktops, but unfortunately had to switch programs when EET was shut down.

I love to read, and have gotten sucked into the world of fanfiction. For those that don't know, that's when regular people write their own stories about their favorite tv shows, movies, books, etc. Although it's primarily a platform for preferential pairings (hah, say that five times fast), some of the stories are really very good, and have actually been published with some alterations.