This is the reason my blog even exists. I am enrolled in CDE CIOS 256 and my teacher is forcing me to enter into what I perceived to be a teenage "thing". However, when reading my "Good Housekeeping" from my Mom tonight, I noticed that at the back there was a blog written by an adult male. He wrote about rollerskating with his son and told us what a hot wife he had. He also talked about touching boobs. I wondered why was this even in my magazine!!!
Therefore, back to the subject. I do not have any web design experience since 1998. Yes, you read that right. I had my first child then. I made him a snazzy web site--with a slide show to show off how cute he was. Then I had more children and no longer cared about playing around with the web for a long, long time...
...fast forward to 2008....
I am taking this class because I went to work last year for five months as an analyst/programmer for the State of Alaska. I was assigned nasty MS Access Visual Basic (Barfic) programming across multiple versions of Windows. Nobody should have to be put through that torture. My babysitter quit and now I am a stay at home mom who would like to play around with web programming.
Before my babysitter quit, I was allowed to venture into Java for brief periods of time. I was given Eclipse to use and had to write HTML code by hand! I knew something was wrong. I found NetBeans and life seemed better.
That is why I am taking this class today, so I can check out the cool new web development tools (and get a new computer in the process). I have no formal web development training, so I'm hoping this will be a good introduction.
Thankful Thursday
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Happy start of May! Today's list, working backward in time a bit...I'm
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2 comments:
Blogs are not a kind of content, but a publishing platform. In the same way that books are not a kind of content but a way to share content. So, in that way, talking about "blogs" as if they are some particular kind of thing (a teen thing, a tech thing, whatever) doesn't make a lot of sense anymore. Sure, a lot of blogs are published that are trivial and uninteresting... but many that are not, whether the topics are personal or general, political or artistic, academic or entertainment.
Most importantly for a web developer, blog software has become the de facto platform for building all kinds of web sites that in no way look like a typical blog with reverse chronological posts... they are a simple lightweight content management system! In our web design shop, at least 75% of the sites we build have a blog powering them in some way even though you could never tell from the outside :)
Blogger is not appropriate for building such external sites, but it is a good way to get familiar with some of the concepts... and what you put there is up to you (well, excluding my assignments :), so it's up to YOU if you want to make it interesting or not!
Borrrring....comment.
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