BLOGS, BLOGS, AND BLOGS.

As I expressed in my first blog..I love blogging! Maybe even more so, now! I think its extremely important to get your word and opinion heard, or even just let out. Blogging is a great tool for that and maybe one day will lead you somewhere. This was my favorite park of my course, the blogging. I think its great that Professor Morgan is interested in our thoughts on each project we did. Especially since she does not want it in a "John Collins" format. Its just us, our real thoughts and a keyboard. It was a great release. Thank you for our course, Professor! I'm sorry about my mid-slacking. I learned :(

TAKE CARE!
Julia Dres

Power Point

I have been using MS PowerPoint for years now. It as not until two years ago that I fully mastered how to create an attractive PowerPoint. I don't mind creating Power Points but sometimes..slides are just too blah. Though, Professor Morgan showed us a tool that makes the slide look like a movie. Now, that's fun. Power Points are made to show information, spread knowledge, and that's why we created one. The use of this PowerPoint is to show off our website and all it's goodies. Absolutly a tool that we will be using through out our lives. Thank goodness I mastered it.

QUARKXPRESS

Okay soo..i admit to using Microsoft word as a way to edit pictures and make crafts. But once Professor Morgan showed me QUARKXPRESS it was like the heavens shined down on all future project! NEED TO DOWNLOAD IT TO MY COMPUTER ASAP.

This is such a great program that is so easy to use and so helpful. My project did not turn out so hot, but that was not due to QUARKXPRESS but due to my own mess. If i spent more time and focused it would have been better than every single AD in vogue magazine..ever! This program is outstanding and should be shown to everyone.
Design faster and more precisely with enhancements to features, reliable PDF output,
dictionaries and hyphenation in more than thirty languages. I'm grateful I was shown QuarkXPress, and i will be using it in the future more often than not.

MS Word

HOLY MACARONI!
I had no idea about all of the features MS Word has! And to think i have been using this for a huge chunk of my life! MS Word may be used for word doc, pamphlets, Memos, posters, and websites.
Before this class I was familiar with adding pictures to my MS Word. Although, Professor Morgan showed us a way I never knew before. The much easier way. I never knew we could make it "tight", behind text, in front of, or indented.

We had to create a memo using MS Word. Never before have I created one, but it was fairly easy. I have satisfied with the way it came out. The features I used were tabs, paragraph indentations, shapes, fonts, colors, tight and photos. I really enjoyed making them, and I'm sure i will be creating them in my future-for my parents or for work. I think my memo looked presentable. Now, if only I can convince everyone else that.

Design

What's life with out a little bit of color?

Well, we all loved to color when we were little...and this is kind of like that feeling. Only you DONT want to go outside of the lines. Design is a way of grabbing peoples attention. It may seem easy to layout attractive pieces but it can get frustrating. You have to make sure everything is aligned the same, you have great contrast, the fonts are readable and well quite frankly, you have to follow the rules. The rules of Williams that is. In her book she gives advice and design principles. Some may seem as common sense, but others really do make a difference.

LETS SAY I MADE SOMETHING LIKE THIS

BUT THEN MY NEXT LINE WENT THIS WAY

AND HOW ABOUT THIS WAY? SEEMS FUN!

THESE COLORS ARE BRIGHT..THEY'LL GRAB ATTENTION!

..but this is so..ugly.

Now this looks better:

Lets say I made something like this
And kept my lines all the same direction.
Same font, too!

:)

Creating a Site

Not once have I created a site before my Com 205 class.

I have never had so much fun on a computer. We definitely get to show our personality

through this assignment. Creating a website is a great tool for getting your foot in the door for jobs and overall just a great experience. Web sites are such a valuable tool and is taking over every other way of getting information. So it was really great learning about that and continuing to.

Using google sites was extremely easy. They really do have a great layout on how to start everything up. Pretty sure my 11 year old sister can manage to make a site using google sites!

Introductory Blog

Blogs have been a part of my life since I was 14 years old. So for about a little over 5 years my fingers have been typing away my thoughts and experiences. I guess you could say having my siblings steal my journal from my not so secret hiding spot caused my blogging.

Having a blog for a class is a very wonderful idea! You get to let your professor know just how you feel-was the assignment too hard? Need help? Ideas? SPILL IT ALL OUT ON YOUR BLOG!

The best part of this is... drum roll please...

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and your thoughts.

Thank you Professor Morgan!