Creating web pages is something I have a had a little experience in. Little meaning, I'm not great, but I can get the job done. For awhile, I thought that it was something that I wanted to do as a career and took a few classes in it. I also took the classes to help me teach kids as well because I thought it would be something they would think was fun. Well, they do think it is fun and exasperating, and so do I. I also learned that although I can do the pages, I don't have a good background for it when it comes to java, php, asp, etc. I also learned, that although my pages are functional, I don't really have that creative flair, that some web designers possess. I tend to just keep things functional and simple, and I really like clean pages. Nothing too fancy, part in because fancy is sometimes beyond my scope, and partly because I just like the clean look. I have had to design many pages for the classes I have taken. I did one for our local theatre club, swim club and one for my husband. None of which after I was finished wanted the headache of updating them, so they aren't online.
You have all heard me talk about the ranch horse competition and my sister. Well, she raises quarterhorses, and I designed her a website a few years back. I update it usually about once or twice a year if she has new photos or info she needs added. I started pretty simply, and last year I got a lot fancier. I used FrontPage to design it, Adobe Photoshop to do the animated gifs, CoolText.com to design the buttons, and I designed the firey background on the home page in Adobe as well. I took most of the photos except the one on the home page that a friend of my sister's took. All in all, I'm pretty proud of it.
Before I did her site, I had been designing and keeping up to date the Torrington Middle School's site. Then our school bought SchoolFusion so that all teachers could have a website. I still do some stuff on our old site that is linked to our new site, and I am giving considerable thought to updating and redesigning that for my final project.
Here is my sister's website. Enjoy. www.jamiesquarterhorses.com
About Me
- The Rev
- I grew up on a ranch, taught the make believe children in my make-shift hen house/school room, became a teacher, got married, had some kids, yada, yada, yada. Don't feel a day over 30.
1 comment:
Hi Torry,
I agree with you. I like things to be simple and clean, not that I have the proficiency to make it fancy anyway! :-) It sounds like you have quite a bit of experience. This was my first experience creating a webpage. I wanted to be a little fancy and include a small database so that parents could type in updated addresses, phone numbers, email, etc. since it seems every time I turn around something is no longer valid! My husband informed that html could not do that and it would require something like java. Oh well! By the way, it's great that you are able to help so many people with their websites. That's been a handy tool to have!
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