Go Blue

My Blogging Experience

Blogging in BIT320 has definitely been a positive experience for me.  From having no idea what a blog was to where I am now, I feel much more aware with advances in the business world and give the credit to BIT320 for that.  Although as a procrastinator, at times I hated blogging, I know that it was good for me to keep up with the work even if it was only in order to have something to blog about.  There were numerous times when I read recent posts to see other's interpretations of the current material, used the search function to find information about a certain idea I was confused about, and posted my own questions which were always responded to extremely quickly by the professor.   In a competitively graded class such as the business school classes, it was comforting to see my classmates struggle as I was at times, and also beneficial to see their success at other times which pushed me to study more. 

Another aspect of the blogosphere that I enjoyed was getting to know all my classmates on a different level than just seeing them across the room in class.  I think it would have been nice to have a few of the posts more personal and explaining their hobbies, interests, personality, expectations for the class, or whatever else they wanted to share.  I think this would have brought people together based on similar characteristics, and the more communication between classmates the more shared knowledge as well.

Overall it was great and I hope it continues to be a part of the BIT curriculum in the future!

 

I LOVE Mozilla!

Before this class comes to an end, I wanted to take the time to say how much I LOVE Mozilla!  I had no idea what it was before BIT320 labs started, but I love it so much and can't even stand to use Internet Explorer anymore.  I have made all my family and friends switch as well and they all love it too.  The permanent google in the corner, the tabs, the ability to use sage, it is all wonderful and I thank this class for teaching me about it.   :0) 

Project 2: Requirement 4

Just a quick question about the project requirements:

Requirement 4 says that "html (or other) mock-up of the functionality you choose not to implement. You should hand in each html page."

We made a fake dance marathon website to show all our functionality, so should we print out each page of our website? We have tons of links on it showing more than 12 forms and more than 20 views...do we need to print out each one of those? Or do we just turn in the website address?

Our Dance Marathon Website

After many many hours of working on our project today, our website is coming along.  After seeing all the other groups' sites we felt a lot of pressure because everyone's was so good!  Our lack of FrontPage knowledge has held us back but we are doing the best we can.  Another thing that makes doing this project frustrating is how everyone works on something and saves it on their name so only they can access it.  This makes it incredibly hard to consolidate all the final copies of everything to make the final version because not only do we need everyone present to access their stuff but we also need to figure out who did what and if two people did the same thing, who's to use.  It is still in progress, but if you want to see where we are now here is our website.   Although it isn't the most appealing to the eye, when you insert information it shows up on our tables which I think is very cool.  I NEVER imagined being able to make something like this!!!  We will continue to fix the problems and make improvements in our website until the due date, but so far so good!

Presentations

I really enjoyed listening to everyone's presentations today.   Everyone has really done a great job - I wish we could all get A+'s!!!  I do like how we got to see what the rest of the class is doing before we turn in our final project as I've never had a class where that happened.  I think our group got a lot of good ideas from the other groups and hopefully some groups got ideas from us as well.   I really like how all the other groups actually had a web page and I can't believe we didn't think to do that, so that is one thing we will definitely get done.  It really makes everything a lot clearer to see the project functioning on a web page.  Is FrontPage what you use to do that?  My group has 3 BBA1's and since we are making blogs instead of web pages we never learned how to use FrontPage.  The only web page I've ever made was with DreamWeaver.  Anyway, we still have over a week to finish everything up so I'm sure we will be able to figure everything out.   

Coming Along

Our project is really coming along and it's nice to see so much of it working.   One thing I have to say about this X-stuff is that I'm really glad we get to work in groups, and in my case such a large group of six people.  As annoying as group meeting are, doing this kind of project alone would not be fun.  I think everyone in our group has figured out how to do something and contributed to our project.   Working  on this kind of stuff alone would be very frusterating as a lot of the things are just time-consuming and take a lot of playing around to figure out.  I'm looking forward to all of the presentations on Thursday and am excited to have one class out of the way while studying for the final exams in the rest of my classes. 

P.S.  I am making this text white!  Cool!   Now I can't see it but it will show up in my blog because the background is blue.  But you might not be able to see it in sage unless you highlight it...hahaha

Design Problems

Link: wizdumb: Adding a picture to your Weblog.
After reading wizdumb's post about adding a picture, I decided to add a picture to my blog as well. I added a picture of my sister and I with our new baby cousin. While doing this, I also decided to change the design as I was getting sick of my blog. I spent the time to make a new template, previewed it, and it was beautiful. However, after I published it my blog did not look how it should. It has my old colors but some new form with only one column which I never picked and it's all messed up! I am hoping that it will just take time and then fix itself but until then, sorry for the ugly blog!!