Why You need to know HTML, if You are a web designer

It is always important for people to know what they are doing and how things work if it is their job to know such things. Web designers need to know HTML so that if something goes wrong with the web page or the program that they are using to build the web page, then they can go in and fix the problem or continue working. Plus, even though you are doing all of your work on a computer, you don't want the computer to have too much power over you, so knowing how to 'manually' do HTML can help you control your computer rather than the other way around, if you are a web designer. If web designers don't know how to do HTML, then nobody will and it would be pretty hard to make advancements in that area without knowledge of the basics.

Great Presentations in PowerPoint History

Everybody did a great job on their PowerPoints and I could really see the passion that everybody had for their subjects. I really enjoyed Ralph's and Abigail's presentations, for different reasons. Ralph's presentation on soccer and its impact on people touched on what is at the core of sports, and that is just how sport is a great sanctuary for people. How when things maybe aren't going how you want them too, then you can always just go to the soccer field or whatever field you play on and everything just feels right and makes sense. The presentation had a sort of intangible quality that made me fall in love with sports all over again. It was like the love song of presentations. Abigail's had the coolest themes with the clouds. I am just going off of my less than thorough notes here, so I have that her presentation was on "perspective". I am not sure what that means, but I think that it might have been about English. Anyway, the opening slide where all of the clouds came together was really cool and I loved all of the bright colors that were used. It was like the "Transformers" of presentations in that it looked cool and had flashy colors, but I don't remember what it was specifically about. If for some reason you read this, then sorry Abigail.

Surfing the Web with Chris Nolan

Thanks to Chris Nolan for an insightful presentation on the search engines that I use on a daily basis. If I can continue with the surfing metaphor from the title, when I had been using these search engines, I was only seeing the surface of the water. I learned that me and 60% of the other internet users surf in Google's sea and Chris Nolan showed me all of the wonderful things that live below the surface of the water. There's that fish that looks like a minus sign, and whatever you type after it is excluded from your search, also any fish that are caught in quotation marks have to appear exactly in the order that they were typed in your search. I was also taught to be on the lookout for fish that may not be reliable sources to quote in research papers. I should look to see who produced the fish and what kind of credentials they have. Maybe the coolest thing that Chris Nolan showed us was that tool that shows which fish that appear in the Google Sea also appear in the Yahoo Sea, and their importance in each sea.