The end of a 10 week webdesign course at Glamorgan University.
I have had a great time in web design although it did take me until the 5th week to actually understand the difference between posts and pages on wordpress (I knew what they were just didnt grasp the knowledge of them). After playing around initially with tumblr and blogger, wordpress was a real shcok as it was a completely different level of understanding. After completely cocking up wordpress first time around by using posts as pages and then linking the posts to catagories I thought I was on to a winner, urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr wrong, how naive I was, How was I supposed to know that I had been barking up the wrong tree haha! I did a pretty good job at messing up my site and I even carried on doing it as it looked right.
Thanks to a little help and guidance from tonya and the support and hours of help by Mel I finnaly started to understand what I had been doing wrong so I thank you (both) :).
After the initial miss understandings of wordpress I was soon underway with my site and having started to play around with pages and sub pages I began enjoying creating my site. I had even realised some of the flaws of themes and templates etc… I got rid of the catagories and started to look at didferent sections to my site, which have all been updated slowly. I have uploaded images firstly on flickr, however, I found it limiting on how many albums I could create, so I signed up to photobucket and jalbum, which I find the best fro allowing me to add galleries and upload my images with practically unlimited space :).
I will miss the lessons on monday afternoons, I may find myself walking and sitting down at the computers ready for the class over the coming weeks, it certainly will be wierd.
I have really enjoyed the class when I actually understand what everything is, but I seem to work on a need to know bases otherwise my head just gets filled with information that does not make sense.
I have also been able to help other people who have needed help on linking and other computer terms etc… which is good really because it means I did actually learn something and I am able to understand how links and setting up a website works, (the student becomes the pupil - as joey says haha) what he meant to say was the student becomes the teacher and vice verser. I think this has been a massive learning curve for me and I will difinately keep adding things to wordpress, tumblr blogger and ning.
The website will be great to put on my postcard for the final show as it will viewers a chance to see my latest works etc…..
