HTML Code

HTML code, although complicated is vital to the creation of websites. In our present day, web design programs have been created to skip the steps of writing the exact HTML code, however, having the knowledge of website creation is important beyond using these programs. If you know how to use HTML code, making small edits to a website is much easier than changing the entire website through the use of a program. Changing colors, headlines and other information can easily be altered through the use of HTML, rather than editing the web layout through the use of a program. I am glad that web design programs have been created, but I am also happy that I know how to write HTML code to create a website.

PowerPoint

Creating the PowerPoint presentations for class opened me up to some new techniques I had never used before. My two favorite presentations were Ralph Petang's and Robert Parker's. Ralphs was amazing because of the inspirational photos and technique of fading in and out of pictures. Robert's was awesome because I love Pete Carrol because USC is my favorite school. I play soccer here at Trinity so Ralph's power point really caught my attention. Overall the class created unique and fantastic power points

Chris Nolan Presentation

Chris Nolan's presentation on quality web searching, in my mind, was probably the most imporant presentation of the year. Searching for scholarly material for school projects and papers has become harder and harder through the use of mainstream search engines because of the mass of information that has flooded the internet. It is tough to decipher if information is valid or not and if the information is unbiased. Chris Nolan showed us a few sites I had never seen before including, GoogleScholar and Infomine. These websites are directories to scholarly works that will be quality text to cite in a paper. Google Scholar may not show an entire piece of work on the website, however if the scholarly work is in the Trinity Library database, google will send you to that document on the library network, or show you the location in the library in which to find it. This information will help me in the future.