Better Than Nothing

This past week we had to create a website, Wordpress, about what we wanted to do after we graduate, how we are going to get there, and why. First I will start off with the fact that I had coded my wordpress site and it wasn't as bad as everyone thinks it is. The hardest part for me was the CSS and HTML coding anyway. But that isn't everything that I wanted to talk about, I wanted to talk about what I had to think about when thinking where I wanted to go after I leave college. It took a little longer than I thought it was going to when I want coming up with ideas.

In the end I finally found out exactly why I wanted to do what I want to do. I want to one day work from home because I don't want to give up my career when I have kids, I still want to be able to help bring in money for the family. I also want to be able to see my kids everyday, which is why I choose to work from home.

Then I had to come up with a few reasons of how I am going to get there, that one I already thought about. I will need to work from a design company to get to see how everything is done. Then I will need to get my name out there. Let people know who I am and how great I am going to be.

Well these are only little things that I came up with, but it is better than nothing.

xoxo
Shelby

The Craziness Of Valentine's Day

I am not going to set here and talk about mushy stuff that consists of I love this person blah blah blah. I really want to talk about ways for designers like ourselves to put our talents to good use on this holiday. For one why spend five to ten bucks on a card that has other people's words on it? We are designers, we can create our own card with words from our own hearts, true this will take a little thought behind it and I know most people just want to get through this holiday with as little as no effort but come on, it takes two seconds to tell someone you love them in a few words and the same amount of time to print it out on a nice piece of paper.

Also why go spend forty to fifty bucks on roses when you can spend twenty minutes on the computer watching a video on how to make paper roses, and just make a few of those that won't die. These are just a few ways that we as designers can put our skills to the test, so next time you are rushing to get a card or a gift in order use your designer skills.

xoxo
Shelby

Getting through the week.

This week has kicked my butt from the beginning and it hasn't really been because of design. I have gotten the flu and let me tell you it is not fun. Any how I missed a lot of class because of this, first I missed Tuesday because well lets just say I could get to far from a bathroom, then Thursday we were learning wordpress. Through once I get the hang of it I think it will be easy, I believe that getting there is going to be the hard part.

I decided that since on Thursday wordpress hated me I would read up on it and find out exactly how it works. I think this was a crazy thought at first because I am a hands on type of person, but I thought heck lets give it a try. Let me just tell you it was the wrong thought, I have never been more confused about an application.

Just because I haven't gotten the hang of this thing yet doesn't mean I won't, though I don't have much tell to sit around trying to figure it out. Well back to more research on this thing. Wish me luck.


xoxo
Shelby

Looking To The Future

Everyday I think about what new and cool things will be out next, I always seem to wondering "What if?" I know a lot of these what "if's" are mostly my mind just being crazy but this new project really has me thinking "what if" with technology. 

I have been wondering will they come up with phones that are super slim and small, or are we still going for the super slim but big? And what about the technology in the health care career?

This picture shows what the technology can become in the medical field, people predict that we should be able to take an x-ray with a tablet once technology grows a little more. But what about cell phones? Or even computers?

I believe that one day computers will mostly consist of small devices that are all touch screens, but then what about larger computers? Will they be projectors? If so how exactly will they work? I know there are already little trials of projector keyboards what will they one day proceed to full computer projectors, or just giant clear boards (like white boards) and make them into computers where all you have to do is touch them?? These are the things that I think about.

xoxo
Shelby

A little late....

I know I am a little late on this post and am deeply sorry, however I do have a lot to say and it's mostly about our new program. (This is mainly the part-time students that will get what I mean.) I came from the part-time class and I didn't think I would feel like I was thrown into the lions den with this class until now. I was used to doing good work but having two weeks to get through with it. I mean don't get me wrong I am still trying to put amazing work out there but I feel like I could be doing much better work than what I have being putting out.

I know that, possibly, some of the other part-time now full-time students might feel the same way that I do. I try to manage time better, I am trying to get more of my work done in my free time, but when my computer is about to seconds away from being put in the trash it is hard to do.

I know with time it will get easier and I will soon know this coding like it is the back of my hand, but it is taking a little longer to do with the short amount of time I have. Well again I am sorry that this post is a little late, I hope you enjoy reading it.

xoxo
Shelby

Getting Easier

This week has been a less confusing time, I have found out that I learned some things in high school that are going to help me through this next week, and that I am not so bad at coding after all. So let me start off with saying, thanks to my high school teacher for making us hand code forms and tables. If it wasn't for that I would be totally lost in this part of class. Also I am super happy that instead of having to hand code everything we get to use Dreamweaver!!!!! I am super happy about this, if you can't tell.

 Moving on to over news, I have no idea what I want to do my next website on, I think its because it just seems boring or it's because I haven't really taken the time to really think about what would be good to do a five page website on.  I guess I really need to jump on that because one, Thursday will be here faster than I want. And two I will need to do a lot of research once  again. Well until next time.

xoxo
Shelby

CSS v. ME

I never could have thought that CSS would be as hard as it is being for me. I try to get everything in order and act like I know what I am doing, but honestly I just want to pull out my hair from the stress this is causing me. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would want to tuck my tail and run from this, but honestly I do. I think it is because there is so much to learn out there about this kind of stuff and even though it is really cool to think about everything I could be able to do in the long run, it still scares me with how much I don't understand.

Now we have this new website that we have to do, it is to inform people about Copyright laws, and these that people don't really understand about copyrights. Anyways, even though this sounds like it should be easy enough to find information to use in your website, it's not. It is also not cool to have to find out how you want to style the information that you do have. Anyways I have to get back to coding before I forget everything I read. Hope you guys have a great one.


xoxo
Shelby