Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Advice for the Newbies

If I could pass on just one bit of advice about this class, it would be this - slacking off is easy, the assignments are easy to overlook, and there are a huge number of them, so it's really easy to let a few slip through the cracks, but doing so will absolutely murder your GPA, so keep a close watch on the workload and don't ever get behind or else you'll never catch up.

Favorite Websites

So I was going through the long list of great webpages presented in class, and I found that they were all so good I could hardly choose any of them as being "the best" without overlooking the generally superior quality they all shared, so congratulations to everyone on a job well done! After a great deal of thought, and a looming assignment, I finally narrowed my selection to three webpages that stood out from the crowd; Ralph's, Joy's, and Greg Cobbs' from the 2:10 class. I think Ralph's showed a generally superior grasp of the visual aspect of website design with his picture oriented pages and incredible links, while Joy demonstrated an amazing mastery of photoshop in a personal website that was both informative and fun. Greg's caught my interest because of his wonderful use of humor and amazing taste in music. His talent helped him to create a personal website that was both visually appealing without being overstimulating and sublime in its portrayal of the daily life of an ordinary college student.

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