WEEK 5: Progress has accelerated

As I told you last week, progress of NarnianT-shirts.com has been accelerated due to me finding out what the specific CSS code of elements are thanks to a Google Chrome tool. And as I promised last week, a lot of progress has been made.

My main focus was getting the colors adjusted. Before, everything on the site was grey. It made the site look really boring and unprofessional (not sure how pro a joke website can be, but whatever). But, thanks to Google Chrome, I have changed the colors to make NarnianT-shirts.com look a bit more lively and easier to look at.

I made the title a gold color, added a background, changed the link design from blue and underlined to just grey, and made a couple minor changes.

Other changes? I added a new gag blog post, got rid of unnecessary links on the right sidebar, and now when you hover over one of the tabs, it makes them grey. Changes like that were made this week.

Narnian T-Shirts Week 4: I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!!!

My main problem with NarnianT-Shirts.com the past couple of weeks has been finding the CSS codes for stuff like the header, menu, content, and background. It has hampered my ability to make quick progress with the site.

But that problem is resolved now! My teacher, MR. ERIK JONES, found a tool on Google chrome that can highlight the area you want to edit and tell you what the CSS code is for that element. Such a great tool. I feel as though progress with the site can move along much quicker now that searching for something won't take forever.

I have successfully changed the header font, the header color, and the entire menu... in 20 minutes. Think about what I can do if I have a whole week!

I also put in Edmund and Lucy profile pages, which adds to the content of the site. A new T-shirt design will be coming next week.

Full steam ahead!
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WEEK 3: Trying to find things

OK, I have run into a problem.

I want to edit the header to make it say "Where we're irrelevantly relevant". Problem is, I can't seem to find the page that I go to edit the header is located. This idea of not finding things has been a theme throughout my time with Wordpress, and it's starting to wear on me a bit.

Blogger has the advantage over Wordpress when it comes to easiness.

That's really been the only problem. I put in two new pages talking about Peter and Susan and what kind of pictures my customers could put on their shirts. It's super fun just kind of joking around with the site, not really being serious when it comes to the information.

I have had to be careful when it comes to pictures. I can't use copyrighted photos, because then I have the potential to get in trouble with the owner of the picture.

I expect to add a LOT more onto the site in the coming week.

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WEEK 2: Narnian T-shirts has made some progress

After encountering a few problems with the building tools on Wordpress, I feel as though the construction of NarnianT-shirts.com is coming along quite smoothly.

I managed to write a "Welcome" and a "Mission" page to the site. They were fun to write, mainly because the entire site is a big joke about Narnia.

I'm still trying to find out how to put a poll in. It's not as easy as Blogger mainly because it requires me to mess with a bunch of HTML stuff.

Other than that, nothing really exciting has happened. I'm slowly getting acquainted to Wordpress...

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NarnianT-shirts.com: WEEK 1

Last week, for my final project, I decided to create a website called NarnianT-shirts.com.

The site is merely going to be about absolute ridiculousness. I mean, who makes Narnian T-shirts? No one!

I'm just getting acquainted with how Wordpress works (sorry Blogger, I ditched you) so the site at this point is unimpressive.
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The Search Engine experience

I actually enjoyed learning about search engines because it's something we use every day. It's cool to see how it works and how Google/Yahoo/Bing/Whatever determines how your website is ranked. Scott Bothel came into our class explaining that websites generally rank websites by these factors:

• Back links
• Quality of work within the site
• Key words (at least they used to be relevant with search engines)
• A couple other smaller things

We then had to create our own sample webpage, which I did here.

HTML and CSS response

Whenever people see “internet language” (HTML), 90% of those people freak out and don’t have a clue of what any of it means. It’s all just a mix of numbers and letters.

I was one of those people. Until I learned how to design this webpage.

You may be asking how I managed to create a semi-decent webpage. I didn’t do it all on my own, as my teacher, Erik Jones, gave us a sample CSS file to work off of. From that, I dinked around with different codes and such and finally managed to have my page fit his smaller computer screen.

I actually enjoyed using Microsoft Expression Web to create my web page, at least once I got the hang of it. Once you memorize the overall format of the program and all of its codes, the process of creating a web page is a lot easier.

The student uploader – the thing where you apply your CSS file to your web page – was super easy, with only a few clicks necessary for it to work.

All n’ all, a good experience.