Expression Web

Expression Web and other web creator software is extremely important to have because it cuts out a lot of time in the web production process. I still think it is important to understand the codes and what they stand for. This way if there is a problem you are able to maually fix it or alter certain portions of the site with coding. It is fascinating to see what can come from a series of letters that compose the code.

Powerpoint Presentations

I really enjoyed seeing all of the different techniques and learning about the variety of topics presented on during the class PowerPoint presentations. Two in particular stuck out to me, Ralph Petang's PowerPoint on soccer and Ben Klimesh's on umpiring baseball. I really enjoy sports so that caught my attention at first, but my enjoyment went much deeper than just the level of topic. I really thought Ralph did a great job keeping the word's to a minimum and letting the slide's do a lot of the talking for him. His photographs were amazing. It almost seemed like it was professionally assembled because of the smoothness of the transitions between photographs or quotes. You could really feel the passion he had for his subject through his presentation and the content of the slides. Ben did a great job keeping his presentation light and made it fun to learn about the fundamentals of umpiring baseball. I really liked the photographs that he chose to illustrate where the umpires stand when they are working a game. I also enjoyed his background on criteria a person needs to have in order to umpire a game, it was very interesting. His slides were ordered in a very organized manner and it seemed to transition between his points well. The design also looked good, I thought he had a simple, yet fun font that he used through out the PowerPoint.

Chris Nolan

I think Chris Nolan had a lot of great information about researching online and through the Coates database. Something new that I found out was how to do an advanced search on Google. I really liked the capability of searching for certain types of documents and also how to search for documents if you don't want a certain word to be included in the results, like Chris' example of searching for Mexico and having many New Mexico sites pop up by default. One thing I found interesting was that most of the academic sites on Google do not show up until many pages into searching unless you do an advanced search. I always thought that Google would list the scholarly and academically credible sites first.