HTML Code

It is important for web designers to be able to know and use HTML code even though many sophisticated web-authoring softwares are available. Expression Web and Dreamweaver are both softwares that can allow for a faster website-creating process, but even these programs can have their flaws. In class the other day, our teacher provided an excellent example for when knowing HTML code is useful. She was editing the class wiki and wanted to edit the font. She tried to bold, then un-bold, but nothing seemed to change. When she went into the site's code, she recognized that the wiki was written in a font that always appeared to be bold so she was able to figure out why it wasn't working. Luckily, this scenario was only for a class wiki, but had a similar situation occurred with a corporate webpage, someone's job (or even many jobs) could have been on the line. 

Chris Nolan's Presentation

Though there is an infinite amount of information available to us on the internet, where do we even begin to go about finding what we want? And how do we know if it's the right source? These are very common and valid questions that Chris Nolan, the Trinity Librarian, adressed when in class.
Personally, I was surprised to learn that 59.80% of Americans use Google as their search engine. I am included in that statistic, but I didn't realize they controled over 1/2 the search engines. Following behind Goolgle is Yahoo (21.30%), Microsoft (9.40%), AOL (4.80%), and Ask (4.70%). The reason for Google's popularity was because they were the first ones to rank the results in order of relevance. This goes back to one of the questions at the top- how do we know if it's the right source? Google ranks its articles according to relevance.
Another interesting fact Chris Nolan tought us was Google's stand with advertisers. According to Google, Google gets all its money from companies that pay to have advertisement on the sides and top of the page, but advertisements never affect the ranking of websites. In fact, Google says that they will block websites that try to up their rankings by advertising themselves.

Powerpoint Presentations

In class we created PowerPoint presentations representing a topic dealing with our intended majors or professions. Two of my favorite presentations were Cole's presentation on Autism and Nellin's presentation on OB/GYN's. 

Cole used layering very well and very often. His design was simple and easy to follow, yet very effective. I also really liked that he tied a personal connection in when he included his cousin's condition into the presentation.

I really liked Nellin's presentation because of the reason behind creating it. Her slides were very informative but her presentation is what sold me. She told the class that she wants to become an OB/GYN because of extremely high number women who die during child birth in Africa. Her presentation I think flowed smoothly and instilled her point very well. It left a lasting impression on her audience, me, proving the productivity of her PowerPoint.

I did my presentation on Ansel Adams because I have considered photography as a profession. Here is my presentation: Ansel Adams