In the second week of CEDO 599 - Culminating Experience: Digital Futures, I have the clearance to move forward with my capstone project. I am building a Website from scratch using the latest version of Adobe Dreamweaver. Over the past few months I've been dreaming of building the most fantastic site ever known to The Internet. My project is to create a Website from scratch using Adobe Dreamweaver. The Website's intended audience are potential employers and colleagues. The project will help me gain valuable experience with Website layout, design and coding. Sure, there were easier ways to go with this but I need the experience to have 'street cred' with technical folks I may work with at a later date.
I completed SMART Objective #1 where I identified all of the content that I will have on my site and placed on my Cardinal Stritch University ePortfolio. I feel pretty good that I have identified and placed the artifacts on my site. At a later time, when I am doing the actual coding I can go to the source page and grab the artifacts, links and images.
A the moment, I am working on wrapping-up Objective #2where I create a mock-up or site composition specification. The Digital Storytelling Course and Presentation Zen made a big impression on me. It was very tempting to start designing the site based on the latest cool features in Dreamweaver. In other words, start icing the cake before it was baked! That is a major pitfall and I made myself go offline,think about my intended audience, draw the site by hand, and then create a mock-up in MS-Word. It feels like there should be more, but that is just the pull of the technology and I am trying so hard to not obfuscate my site with cool chotchkies and spinning widgets that shine and sparkle.
Already I am learning so much. When I see a great site I let my Web-browser display the source code so I can see how they pulled it off. It is very exciting to be finally tackle a professional goal I have had for the past few years.
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