Well, my classmates and I have been learning about the internet all semester in this seminar class. We have discovered many new web pages on the world wide web, and this past week we got to learn how to actually create our own.
Creating a website was something I had some experience in, but I learned much more last Tuesday. My dad owns an online media company for short track racing. He not only created a main website where he and his employees post coverage of auto-racing events across the country, but they also create and maintain webpages for clients, such as racecar drivers and racing series, that are linked to the the main website: www.Speed51.com. I worked for my dad for several years and helped to maintain many of the client sites through a program called Homestead Site Builder; however, I never actually learned the technology behind creating a webpage from scratch.
I was very intrigued to see the way certain keys on a keyboard can translate into commands that will place images, text, and hyperlinks in certain areas or in certain ways on a website. Through Homestead, I would design a website by using the tools they had on the program. It definitely was a lot less complex and easier to make a website look appealing by using Homestead, but I found that learning a new way to create a site was a great learning experience.
I was also interested by how to create animations online. I am still rather confused on how to do this, so I am glad that I can get more help on uploading my animation to a website when I go to class Tuesday. The animations are really neat to watch, and I cannot wait to see how my finished product turns out.
