lharper1 – Learning Journal

The Day is Right Around the Corner

Its the time everyone rushes for. The day everyone excitedly waits for and dreads its arrival at the same time. Its that time of year that makes you look back and think about and reminisce with friends and family of all times. Some people even throw parties in celebration when the day come. The time of year everyone awaits for with rejoice and stress, Finals week.

Themes Themes Themes!

Ever wonder how WordPress creates all those fancy not-so-little themes? well you would you believe me if I told you , you, yourself could make them on your own? Crazy right? Now your probably telling yourself how do I even create theme let alone have my theme be on WordPress! Well the answer might shock you and its easy.

This week’s theme: CRUD

CRUD is the theme also theme is the theme this week.

From the last two weeks in class we learned about how to do CRUD and make themes. Now don’t let the name fool you or misread this as themes are CRUD. Because learning about themes and CRUD are the exact opposite of what it sounds like and I can tell you How.

PHP more like PANS

PHP more like PANS (Pretty Awesome New Stuff). Is a great to keep a website update without manually changing it every day. Most of PHP is simple and easy to use. Want to know how? Its easy and will make Website pages a breeze

EShopping and Backing Up

The importance and wonderful worlds of EShopping websites and the knowledge of backing them up. Two very important things I learned through the past weeks were the different types of EShopping websites, from our guest speaker Tirzah Johnson, and the repeating steps of backing up wordpress sites.

WordPress more than a blog site

WordPress isn’t that scary or hard as I though, even more easy to operate. I might even say I can see myself enjoying using it. WordPress is way more than just a blog site.

Lisa’s Bio – AAD 87 Fall

Hi, My name is Lisalynn Harper, but I go by Lisa.

Three short things about me are; Favorite color is blue, I have assortment of pets, and I laugh at corny puns/jokes.

I have a eye and fondness for art and design. I really like vector base art, especially the design images that use 4 or less colors to create a full image.

My art history starts in high school when I took my first set of art classes; Studio, Photoshop, and Illustrator. This is when discovered that I really took a liking to Illustrator. Thus starting my journey into Media Design.

At first I wanted to do Traditional/2D animation when I got into college, but after I took some Design and Web Classes I soon moved my college goal to Web design.

Wk 10&9 what we learned

The field trip was amazing, like totally amazing. It really helped me find out what I need to to do and where I am in my readiness for the field. It helped with learning what we need, what to look for, and how to start.

Personally, it so showed me that I need to work on my skill a tad bit more before considering for an internship. But the whole experience really showed me what companies look for and what I need to improve on in my skill.

Also, the Bakery Site project really helped really helped me on creating , my midterm. It help me understand how to use the media query for having the website go from phone to tablet to web.

Git and Github

week 13

Git and Github was interesting to use. Every thing has a simple command but remembering the order and commands take some time to remember. But after using it a bit I can kinda understand how to use it.

Even though it take a hot second to learn, I can see how it can be really useful when building a website without having to worry about losing progress with random program fails.

week 15 Parallax fun

parallax fun

We learned what and how to use Parallax in our websites. I really liked this lesson and I am trying to use it in my final. I found it pretty cool on how you can make the items have different distant in the web page. The whole lesson really made me stop and think about all the websites I’ve seen use this and made me want to explore using it.