Week 7

I worked on Tuesday for 2 hours,

I have worked for a total of 50.5 hours so far,

We are making good progress on the website. Yesturday Damian and I met with Rachel and talked about what the next step is. We discused how we wanted the podcast page to look like. I was able to lay out a page in Fireworks, a graphic layout page. I am going to work with Damian to set up a demo podcast page, so I can miss around with creating a podcast feed and submitting the feed to several podcast directories. I have done some reasearch on podcast media players for websites.

I am also doing a intern at the Novato Charter School. The next time I go in on Wednesday I am going to show the eight graders how to use keynote/powerpoint. I am lookinf forward to this and hoping I can convince them to use keynote, since I really do not like powerpoint. I will begin by asking them what they know and then go from there.

Week 6

I worked on Tuesday for 2 hours,

I have worked for a total of 30.5 hours so far,

Yesturday Rachel met with her other interns and so could not meet with us. Instead Damian and I worked together. He should me the basics of using Fireworks and Dreamweaver. We created a very simple site with a title, links, a sidebar, and the main content. We used Fireworks to lay out the website and then copied it over to Dreamweaver. Both Damian and I are new to the software, however Damian knows a little bit more than I do, so he taught me what he learned. The next step in our project is to begin working on the webpages that we have mapped out. We need to talk to Rachel to find out exactly what she wants. I also need to begin thinking about what I am going to do for my project. Although we have not done much on chaning the website, I could show some of the maps we have created, talk about the sites I researched, maybe talked about the letters that I and Damian wrote, and maybe if we have done some things on the website I will demo that as well.

Week 5

I worked on Tuesday for 3 hours, Wednesday for 2 hours, and Thursday for 3.5 hours.

28.5 hours so far,

The internship started off a little bit slow, but things have begun to pick up. Yesturday we got on the computers and accessed the ftp website using the user name and password that we were provided. We are going to be able to make our own pages in Dreamweaver and then upload them to the site. For the version of the site that we are updating we need to keep the basic design of the site the same, but we have freedom over the content and the navigation. The media site that we will work on later we have complete control over everthing. I think that both Damian and I are exited about how things are working out.

The next step is to draft an e-mail to Linchi, the graphic designer, so we can get the graphics for the site. We also need to do some research to see what similar websites have done and what works and doesn't work. We will need to decided on what pages go into which categories. We will use Inspiration to map out the new design. We will need to get info on the color scemes, fonts, ect. from Linchi. We will need to assign pictures to the webpages and find out what text we need.