What content do you think at this point you want to add to your Web page, and why? Also, what have you contributed or will you contribute to your professional development site design specifically? List at least three things.

As for my personal webpage, I really need to get some good welcome text on the main page. I've gone through several iterations, but ended up erasing each without saving them. I suppose I may just imitate Kassi's page, with a brief bio focusing on qualifications and goals.

As far as the professional development group goes, I've done most of the design work, with a fair amount of consulting with the other group members, who have provided the actual pictures for the sub-pages, text content and information about the flooring. Tap and I together did the original storyboard, which I've modified into what the site is now. I've also put together the subpages, thought the design for these was worked out among all of us.

Based on what we did in class today, whose homepage is the furthest along and why? Be specific.

At the point this was assigned (and still definitely in the top) Kassi Carter's page was the clear winner. Well-designed, it has a good interface, well-formated resume, and a neat little AIM icon/link at the bottom. I like the way she did her photo gallery, and the whole website just seems tastefully designed to me.

What kind of job or profession do you want to get into when you graduate? What role do Web sites play in that job not in terms of getting the job but using the Internet in your profession?

Honestly, I intend to find an entry-level position in any IT-related company I can, working my way up to whatever I can find. I'm qualified for any number of positions, including server administration, website design and maintenance, liason between technical people and their overlords, and I intend to add more network and server-related qualifications on my own time as I go. Website skills, on both the Internet and intranets, are very usefull in any number of ways for many different positions, including making myself more valuabe even possibly outside my 'official' job description wherever I land.

I am Better at creating Storyboards Now Because

Extensive practice, and then seeing what the design actually looks like when translated from paper to the screen this semester has given me a much better perspective on storyboarding. For instance, on my design for the Sutherlands Flooring webpage, my original storyboard had a group of pics in the center, and links around the edge to the various sub-pages. After I actually built this, looked at it, and had a couple of other people look at it, it was obvious that this approach wasn't the best, even though it look pretty good on paper. The graphics in the center took the viewer's whole attention, to the point that people said they didn't even notice the satellite links until I pointed them out. Because of this, and other suggestions, I redesigned it with the pictures in the middle larger, and they themselves being the links. When something in the center is intended to grab and hold attention, that thing needs to have an importance equal to it's attention grabbing value; in this case, the center-stage pics also being the links.