Week 8

Week 8 


Task List
Where you’re at
What you need
Intro Skills
-          Following video tutorials to get a basic understanding
-          Adding characteristics to the site.
-          Expanding and reducing the dimensions
-          Adding images, shapes and designs.
-          Creating visually appealing concepts and designs
-          Working on headers, footers and hyperlinks
-          Working past a simple design to something more complex.
-          Using layers to expand the usage and response of the page.

Practice Skills
-          Creating a multi-page trial website to practice certain skillsets.
-          Using already published sites to get an idea of how websites look in our modern day.
-          Moving beyond single-layer elements
-          Using mouseover/scroll effects.

Final Project

-          Bringing in images to use for the final project.
-          Implementing said skills to what I started Muse for – creating a fully-functioning website for my hotsauce.
-          Using three or four tabs, the business should have an appealing online appearance.
-          Once the pages are set up, a few in-depth video tutorials should help finalize and add depth to the company.

Intro Skills
-          I understand most basic elements.
-          Playing around with some features helps me learn as I go.
-          I’ve seen some video tutorials, but could still spend some time catching up on other features.

Practice Skills
-          I’ve made two trial websites which display how to use and order images.
-          Use of slideshows could be used later on.
-          Multi-layered design.
-          Still need to work on some of the mouse and scroll effects.
-          In “preview”, the design is altered.
-          I need more work with the changing dimensions.
-          Hyperlinks hasn’t worked how I desire yet.

Final Project
-          I’ve yet to start…
Intro Skills
-          Time to watch videos and modify some of the things I don’t yet know.

Practice Skills
-          I should set aside one more class to watch a video on hyperlinks and arranging of images so that they stay the same at all page dimensions.
-          I definitely haven’t mastered all of the skills, so I should find one in-depth skill to apply to my site.

-          Final Project
-          I need to remember to bring in a USB with the images required.
-          This should really pop, so I’ll need to step it up from my practice pages.
-          I need to find a way to make an interesting presentation out of something that may be seemingly dry to onlookers.


Working alone isn’t much of a problem since I plan on using Muse to create something for my benefit… working with others would likely slow down the process on such a project. The problem is that two people could learn completely different skill sets and apply them together. It may require some time at home to catch up on where I am otherwise behind. 




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