Week 15

While I already finished my senior project, I still need to keep nazdingoo.com up to date. I made a post explaining the installation of the senior show. I still need to take photos of the gallery space to add supplementary pictures to the post.

Week 14

I uploaded my videos to Youtube, which solved the problem of not being able to upload directly to Word Press. Then I simply linked to the videos on my site. Another edit I made to the page was to reduce the number of menu items on the sidebar, reducing the bar's size and making it less distracting and more useful.

Week 13

The next assignment was to make at least ten posts and one page. I used "retroblogging" to make the posts look like I made them in order by changing the post date on each post. The posts themselves document the progress through my senior seminar project from the beginning to current. I also made a video page to include the videos of my animations, but couldn't upload videos to it yet

Week 12

I already knew that I had the theme I was going to use, but still needed to make it more personalized. By editing the images in the theme image folder and saving them, I changed the background picture, as well as all of the small graphics such as menu divider lines and the search bar. Then I went into the code to change the title and subtitle of the site to something more fitting than "My Site". In addition, I added an "About" page which includes my artist's statement.

Week 11

Now that I had my theme, I needed to make three posts to get a better idea of what the theme looked like when used. I made posts about the most recent work I had completed in senior seminar.

Week 10

We were introduced to Word Press themes. The assignment was to find at least three themes that looked interesting to us, and have an idea of what the subject of our final website would be. The best of the themes I found is called "Colourise". I am using this theme to create a site about my art major seminar project.

Week 9

We were assigned to improve the sxu-vac website to make it more complete. We were to select something that was not represented on the website and make a create a post about it, including at least one photograph. I decided to make a page about the faculty offices at the VAC.

Week 8

I put rollovers on the navigation buttons on my story site. To do this, I dropped under the images menu in Dreamweaver to Image: Rollover. Then I Selected the images for the rollover - two for each button, one "before" image and one "after" image. I almost had another frustrating moment this week because I had saved the old files into my storysite folder. I managed to simply add the title back into the pages without difficulty. Finally, I added the third site to my hub.

Week 7

I had a frustrating time because I kept taking steps backward while trying to finish up my story site. The pages that were supposed to be linked to were all out of order. I ended up remaking the page from scratch.

Week 6

We kept on working on the story website. I refined the navigation buttons, titling them instead of numbering them. I also added a title at the top of the page, and made sure that all three pages consistently lined up.

Week 5

We were assigned to make a 3-page site using Photoshop that told a story. I decided to make a site about Lucky, our dog that had recently been put down. I used a simple color palette and used images of Lucky, and a scanned image of his collar. The navigation bar is on the left side of the page for easy accessibility. The pages are basically divided into a 2-column grid. The three pages document our finding of Lucky, his life, and his death.

Week 4

This week we used Dreamweaver to create a site that links to every other site we have made so far. We created a table to drop our images and text into, then put the elements into the table. Before just dropping the images into their cells, they had to be resized so they all had the same width and resolution. I used 250 pixels wide and 72 ppi. I then used the CSS menus to change the colors of my background, and made links using CSS for images and HTML for the text links. The site is fairly simple and straightforward, but will likely be jazzed up in the coming weeks. I placed the sites in chronological order, because it seems like the logical way to put the sites.

The link to my index site is http://nazdingoo.com/

Week 3

nazdingoo.com/iweb1

This page was created in iWeb. I used the template called "Black". I used the pictures that I took last week for this site. My one small "hack" was using images for the headers on each page, instead of just typing in the text boxes. We registered our domains. I used hostmonster.com. After registering my site, I clicked on "Free FTP" then opened the "Public html" folder. I dragged my "iweb1" folder into the "Public html" folder, thus publishing my site to the web. I had to rename my source folder so it didn't have any spaces in the name.

WEEK 2

This week we were supposed to bring in 10 related pictures. I chose to take pictures of 10 of my model cars. The concept is kind of a car show. Each car was placed on a white background, so the background is not busy. I then took photos of the cars at various angles, and selected the best one from each of the 10 cars to arrive at my 10 photos for the day. In class we used iWeb templates to create websites to showcase what our 10 images were, and to say something about them.

WEEK 1

Name: Mike Uher
Hometown: Evergreen Park
Interests: Music, guitar, cooking, fishing, sports, photo retouching

Top 5 websites, in no particular order:

ultimate-guitar.com
youtube.com
wikipedia.org
sporcle.com
facebook.com