Lab 7 Reflection Journal

Thawsif Mursalin

Digital Design

Class of 2018

Mr. Ramirez

Lab 7 Reflection Journal:

                Lab 7 was an unexpected surprise. We all thought that we would most likely never even see our labs ever again after we were done with them. This wasn’t the case however. We had to create a home page in lab 7 that would include all the labs and projects that we have currently. This lab was the root directory of all our other future labs and projects. By setting up this page we could put in lab 1, lab 2, lab 3, lab 4, lab, 5, and lab 6 all on one page. So I got busy and started to great this home page. I went for a dark theme this time for the labs and projects home page—lab 7—we were able to conclude that it was essential that we did not mess up here. So what I did was go for a dark home page because it would not foreshadow any of my other works. All of my work had a very big twist of colors and creative font styles. I wasn’t going to let a creative homepage really determine the surprise. It teaches the audience not to judge a book by its cover! If the audience doesn’t look over my work it’s their fault for being immature in the first place!

                To create the labs home page I had help form Photoshop and Illustrator. This is because I always resort to Photoshop of Illustrator  when there is a need to create graphics or vector art of some sort. After saving the images as a png or jpeg/jpg, I followed the prerequisites of HTML coding. Which is that HTML stands for Hypertext Mark-up Language. From this I can deduce that this is a type of code because, ergo, I am in Digital Design and the name itself has language in it! I can also say that this language is used for designing a web site, so we are going to be dealing with a lot of browsers and URL, Uniform Resource Locators. There are also HTML tags that are used to create these websites. We might be using Dream Weaver additionally because that's the main function of it, to create websites. Then by using current materialistic information I used a command known as <img src=”…..”> . The next step was to give the image a post-secondary name, in which we label its section/ role in the HTML coding with an alternative name, alt=”……” .Then giving that image dimensionality by addressing both the height and the width of the image, with commands width=”…..” and height=”……” all in the same line of coding. With this information in mind we were able to place our images. Then linked those images using <a href=”……”> From there we used an FTP to upload our work. FTP stands for file transfer protocol. According to Wiki sources, "The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files between a client and server on a computer network. FTP is built on client-server model architecture and uses separate control and data connections between the client and the server." In our case we used FileZilla to upload out content to the web!