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Lesson 2, Chapter 3

Chapter 3 in Creating a Web Site is entitled “putting your page on the web.”  And a lot of the content in this chapter was familiar to me.  Maybe I’m not giving myself enough credit coming in to this class!  We first learned about web hosting and the process by which a user’s browser takes [...]

Lesson 1, Chapter 17

We wrapped up week 1 with chapter 17 in Creating a Web Site.  This chapter dealt with blogs and how they differ from other websites.  The honest truth is I don’t think I will ever enjoy blogging.  There is surely quite a bit positive about the idea that blogging has a greater ease of maintenance [...]

Lesson 1, Websites

Along with our reading assignments in lesson 1, we were given a number of websites to look over and review.  Both texts have companion websites, we were directed to several websites that showcased the best in web design, and also assigned to check out gimp.org for graphics.  The graphics portion of my website project is [...]

Lesson 1, Preface

Along with the chapters in Creating a Web Site, we were also assigned to read the preface in our second text, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design.  I actually went ahead and also read the first chapter of this book as well.  While this book is extremely well-written and detailed, to me it is definitely [...]

Lesson 1, Chapter 2

So now we move on to chapter 2 in Creating a Web Site.  I have to say that I am really impressed with this text.  I have several family members who work in the computer science field, and I have always felt like they were speaking a foreign language when they “talked shop.”  But this [...]

Lesson 1, Chapter 1

I have spent quite a bit of time considering how to approach this blog assignment and have come to the conclusion that the best thing for me is going to be to break down each lesson section by section.  So this post will focus on chapter 1 in our text, Creating a Web Site.  This [...]

Hello world!

My name is Constandina Tutten and welcome to my blog!  I am in my second semester of the masters in library and information science program, and I will be maintaining this blog as part of my Instructional Graphics course.  While I do not consider myself a very technical person and have only tried blogging on [...]