Assignment 4

1: Experimenting with Dreamweaver:

So I was able to create SOMETHING in Dreamweaver. I did not however attempt to recreate my blog, I sorta just created my own page (on graffiti) to experiment and see what I was capable of. It took me about an hour and a half to two hours total to formulate my masterpiece. I was able to figure out out how to change the background color of my site, which was one of my questions last week. I have no clue how to put a picture of what I've created into my blog so I guess it will be a surprise (good or bad, probably bad) in class tonight. So I was able to use divs to insert pictures and text and all that good stuff. I used a 1 row, 3 column table to insert pictures as well. And instead of inserting a background color I inserted a picture for my site background. All of the pictures I used are from the internet though, not my own. All in all, this experience was a little less frustrating than the last but the prospect of creating a legitimate webpage is still overwhelming to me.



2: Elushika's Comment on my blog:

While she didn't suggest any changes for my blog, I would like to see if there's a possible way to resize my picture because Blogger resizes it (I assume because it's too big). Maybe this is something I could do in Photoshop.



3: Comments on other blogs:

I commented on the following classmates' blogs: Michael Goncalves, Ivana Morgan, & Kristin Cardo.



4: Reading Assignment-Fonts & the Web:

The average web surfer may not care what font they are reading when they visit a website. But this is a very important detail to many if not most designers. Typically, without web embedding tools, when someone visits a website the font would automatically change to a default setting on that particular computer and in most cases would not display the original font intended by that website's designer.

Well, such creations as WEFT (Website Embedding Font Tool) and sIRF (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) are programs that are meant to allow fonts to travel with their webpages to different computer screens. The overall purpose of these tools is essentially to embed fonts into a webpage to ensure that people see that page exactly as the web designer intended for it to be seen. This is important because it allows designers to maintain their typeface of choice and not have to worry about it becoming all discombobulated once their site is out there for the world to view.