Patricia's blog

Learning is ageless - My first web site!

This title may lead you to think that the writer is someone very old, but actually is not, I am living in Toronto since 2008 and I would like to share with all of you my latest  experience as a student in this beautiful country,

 

Despite being a professional, I have always wanted to study something else and DESIGN has always been one of the favorite fields I have been interested in, so I decided to begin a College Diploma in Web Design at Academy of Learning in Toronto, and I am feeling so happy and motivated in the course, that I would like to show you my first steps building my Personal Web Site.

 

Everything in this course have been interesting and challenging, I built my first pages almost from scratch which now can be viewed by my family and friends on the Internet, and it’s incredible!!!

 

First at all, I created my accounts on several WEB 2.0 sites like YouTube, Digg, Flickr and Vox, where I uploaded information about me like: photos, videos, a brief biography, links, comments, etc. and subsequently  I integrated all those features in my personal web site which contain only 4 pages so far.

Trough the course, I have learned many things like CSS and HTML basics, how to embed badges and even the course has a whole chapter dedicated to show us how advertise your site effectively on the Internet. The Google Analytic's Tool was an amazing experience for me; I can see all the traffic in my web site with incredible detail.

 

My personal site was uploaded in Angelfire free hosting that’s why you will see some unwanted advertisement and annoying popups. Also, this was my first time working in a server, I had to create directories and upload files to the server, but it was very intuitive.

 

In the near future I’d like to create a small informational web site with new interactive features which help me to promote the product I distribute.

 

Finally, I’d like to thank the Session.edu staff for making a great job especially to Margaret Penny for all the help.

Enjoy my site: http://pattyscastaneda.angelfire.com/index.html

Becoming a blogger

Today I created accounts in YouTube, Flickr, and Digg sites.

 

As part of my first experience writing a blog, I would like to discuss a bit about some web 2.0 sites I just subscribed and their utility. I think all of them will become from now on very useful tools to improve my professional skills and help me achieving my goals as a distributor in a recently started network marketing company.

First of all I would like to say that I think all of them are incredibly well conceived and designed and that they are very useful sites, particularly Digg, to me the most enjoyable of all of them. I consider this site very well designed and perfectly meeting their purposes, I loved navigating on it and digging some articles and even made some of them my favorites. As a social media site, Digg falls into Web 2.0 site, because is focused in interactive information sharing allowing users to interact with others changing website content and it has a user-centered design very easy to use.

 

I could see the huge community visiting the site and the amount of articles per second arriving to Digg. Furthermore; most of the articles I read had an undeniable quality. I was reading about CSS and general aspects of design, and finally all that exploration allowed me to know useful web sites that until then were unknown to me. Big digg for Digg!!

 

I would like to share with anyone who read this blog a few links that I got from some Digg articles about absolutely stunning web designs, especially footer designs. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

 

http://www.kulturbanause.de/

http://css-tricks.com/

http://www.branded07.com/