I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for taking this class and putting in the effort that you did. The presentations this past week were great! Special thanks to Bret for putting together the additional JavaScript tutorial for the class!
As a way to wrap up the semester, I'd like to give you the opportunity to provide me with some feedback. If you noticed some room for improvement or liked something in particular, please let me know. All constructive criticism is welcome!
It was a pleasure getting to know all of you and working with you throughout this semester. I would definitely look forward to having any of you as students in a future class! I wish you all the best of luck!
Sincerely,
Rose
5 comments:
Rose,
Thank you for all your help. I really learned a lot in this course! I really liked getting into CSS (since I really like layout issues) and although I still struggle with Javascript, some of it is beginning to make more sense.
I can think of one suggestion for the pgrocer scripts:
- Many of them are listed with names that are somewhat cryptic to the uninitiated. I found myself having to open them over and over again, in my search for a snippet or a concept, which was time-consuming and frustrating. Perhaps if their titles were a little less abbreviated, maybe even if they had a brief description next to them, that might help.
It was a pleasure being in this class. I enjoyed it alot even though I am having trouble with the javacript code password's on quiz 3. I really enjoy making sites and I know there is a lot more to learn so I will get JS at some point.
Rose,
Thank you. I really enjoyed the class. While I've been programming for a long time, HTML, CSS and JavaScript are technologies that I found more difficult to grasp and use properly than other languages I used.
I've learned so much from you and from doing the class assignments. I really appreciate how you approached the class and were able to connect with each of us though we all come in from diverse backgrounds, ages and experience.
Bret
Hi,
If anyone is looking for software to help them create / manipulate images for their web sites and were overwhelmed by the price of the Adobe products such as PaintShop and Illustrator, here are some lower cost alternatives that you may want to try first. I believe that they only run on Windows.
While I've never used either PhotoShop or Illustrator I understand that these products lead the market for a reason so I'm not suggesting that the two products I describe below are eqivalents.
The first I've mentioned in class several times is called Paint.net. It provides similar features as Photoshop. I used it to create the banner images for the two web sites I created and placed online at http://home.comcast.net/~bret.brown/javascript and /raptorcenter. I would guess that someone with more artistic talent / experience could do more than I did with this product. But for what I did, the learning curve was fairly small.
This program supports sizing images, adding text to images, creating gradients, and creating layers as does PhotoShop (which allows you to creating images from multiple images). The url for this software is http://www.getpaint.net/.
Paint.NET
The software is free to download and use. They do accept donations so if you would like you can contribute some $$ to help support the people who support and enhance this product.
To be honest I have not yet used this second product. I was searching for a free vector graphics drawing package and I found this link. They offer an older version of the software for free; but given the list of the features in the later version the price of $9.99 seemed reasonable to me to take a chance.
This program is called Draw Plus 6 and is from a company called serif software. The url for this site is http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/default.asp.
Draw Plus 4 and 6
Based on the text on the page and the documentation I read, this product does support vector graphics and is targeted for the most part as a drawing product.
Therefore it is designed to have some of the features that Adobe Illustrator supports. I've read the documentation (a large pdf file) and the product seems to have a number of nice features; though again I haven't yet tried to draw anything with it. There is a tutorial that showed some images that to me looked impressive. Actually some really neat, futuristic images.
While Draw Plus 4 is free, based on the web page, it doesn't support vector graphics. Since it is free you may want to try this version first but since Draw Plus 6 is only $9.99 to download, I just decided to buy the newer version.
I hope this helps. Take care and I see all of you tomorrow afternoon for the Final.
Bret
Hi,
Since we had our Final Exam on Wednesday I don't know if anyone will see this post but I thought I would post it anyway. Now that I have a little time, I am reading a book from sitepoint called 'The CSS Anthology'. If you happen to be in a bookstore over the holidays and see this book, take the time to read at least the first chapter. This chapter does a great job of clarifying some things about CSS that tend to confuse me.
Take care and I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year!
Bret
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