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Reflection The web authoring tools that I used most often where the link tool and the table tool. I tried to set up all my web pages in a similar manner so that they would look consistent throughout. I used a two collumn table with navigation buttons in the left column and the information and required links for each page in the right column. The biggest challenge for me was time and emotions. School ending, my son graduating, living out of a suitcase at my parents house while juggling the emotional and legal issues of a divorce, and moving back home. I faced this challenge by setting aside portions of each day towards a different need. Towards the middle of the course, I felt as if I was off to a great start using angelfire for my web authoring software as well as my hosting server. It was easy to use and my site was posted immediatly upon making any changes. Unfortunately they removed my site after I had a good portion of my project done, I was unable to get it back and I had to start over. I got restarted using Mozilla as my web authoring software and fortune city as my hosting server. It took a full nights work to figure out how to get my web site published and after that things went fairly smoothly. On Sunday, after a 2 day break needed to take care of some personal issues, I started having problems publishing my pages as I started modifying them. I kept getting the message that the publishing failed. I realized that because I was saving the page before publishing it, the page already existed with the file server. Once I deleted the original page in the file server, it then let me publish the same page again with the changes. Thinking I had the problem solved, I continued on adding parts to my outside project. when I started getting the same publishing problem again, I went into my ftp client software to delete the file but i when I tried to get my files to show up on their computer I got the message "the server forcably closed the connection" I decided not to worry about that problem for the time being and just finish the pages and worry about getting them published when they were done. I have to admit that I would like to have done a better job on my web site than I did. |