On Thursday evening at 6:30pm, in B207 Computer Sciences I took the Dreamweaver 1 class by STS. I must say that it was a fantastic experience. The thing that really took me by surprise were the variety of people taking it. Kurt was actually in the class, but so were at least 3 or 4 PhD students, a special student who was at least 45, and some undergrads in a plethora of majors. I guess it just goes to show how everyone has an interest in the internet and making websites these days. Anyhow, the class was great even though some of the super basics, such as defining a site, were already covered in our class. It made for good review, but we also learned a few new things. As for linking, we learned not only how to do a "Back to Top" link, we also learned how to make links open in different windows. On top of that, we learned about CSS as a way to style your website after the content is already there, and during that I figured out how to put background images on my page. Also we learned how to put mp3 and various other documents on the page and place them in nice table formats. I think I may have been able to figure that out anyhow but it was nice to know exactly how it is done. Overall I'd say the class was 80% good review, and 20% new things.
As for using what I've learned for the projects in the class, I feel that I now have a few more basic tools to shape my websites. This will in turn allow for better representation of the rhetorical ideas I'm trying to make on a given website. For instance, being able to add background images or insert different types of media like .mp3 or word documents will enhance the messages I'm trying to get across. Dreamweaver 1 was such a good class, I can only hope I can find time in my schedule to take more classes. I'd love to finish the Dreamweaver series and also take the CSS series so at that point I'd be able to make some pretty sophisticated websites that would be able to make any argument I wish.
If you haven't taken a class yet, I can't recommend them enough!
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