CS 1300 Advice

The 2 main pieces of advice I would like to give students entering the course is to attend class and complete assignments! Along with studying for exams and comprehending the material, every student should have the capabilty of getting an awesome grade in the course! Professor Belisle is such a wonderful instructor, which makes the class even have a more positive experience! Good luck!

Favorite Student Websites

My three favorite website were Teka's, Alexa's, and Bri's.

I really liked Teka's website because of how creative she was in constructing it. I really liked her navigation bar and the overall background schemes she used.

I liked Alexa's website because of her home page. I thought the puzzle pieces and her picture were cute!

Bri's photographs on her website were really cool, especially all her traveling pics. I liked the colors and background she used for all her pages.

My website

Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~sgonzal6

Making the site was easier than I thought. I used Expression web for the website. I am most proud of my pictures page because of how much it means to me. My biggest technical challenge was the resizing of things. I will mainly show off my site to friends and family. Yes, I will probably make another website in the future.

Why web designers should know HTML...

I believe web designers should know HTML even if web designing software is available because of the importance of how HTML affects the process of web making. For example, lets say there might be a glitch in the software, if the designer knows HTML, he or she can go back and fix the mistake because they know how HTML works. Web designers should know HTML because of it's entire usefulness in their job. If a web designer didn't know HTML, it would be like a doctor not knowing the human body and just letting the other staff members and machines take care of the patients.

My pic that lies: Party in the USA

For my pictures that lie I decided to go a little over the top. In my altered picture, I included a friendly atmosphere between Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, and George Bush. This picture shows the 3 men in front of the white house having friendly faces. In the picture Obama is pointing at George Bush, while George Bush is laughing at the entire situation. This is definately a picture that lies because in reality, the situtation would be nothing close to humourous due to the tragic events caused by Bin Laden on September 11, 2001. To a major extreme, this picture correlates to the information in the article I chose because many people might actually believe doctored photos even though they know the truth (Sacchi). In the picture I used the magnetic lasso tool to move all 3 men into the White House back ground. I used the transform tool to make all subjects around the same size. I also used the outer glow tool for Osama, giving him an angelic touch. I used the clone tool to remove some exterior microphones both Bush and Obama had in order to make it seem more realistic. I don't think my image can be harmful because it all boils to having a good laugh from the seriousness. As for the text, I used the title of a popular Miley Cyrus song (Party in the USA), to give the picture an even more humourous value. In conclusion, since I have a brother in Afghanistan fighting for my freedom of speech, I believe I am in all my right to express my feelings over the matter.
Sacchi, Dario L. M., Franca Agnoli, and Elizabeth F. Loftus. "Changing History: Doctored Photographs Affect Memory for Past Public Events." Applied Cognitive Psychology 21.8 (2007): 1005-22. Print.

Powerpoint Guidlines

1.) USE PICTURES! Sometimes many presenter just use text as a mean to show their information. Text is good, but by adding some interesting pictures, many people will pay better attention to the information given.

2.)PICK YOUR FONTS WELL! Some fonts may be too hard to read, others may not fit the structure of your presentation, so pick the font that best suites the powerpoint presentation.

3.)PRESENT INFO IN SMALL SEGMENTS! A large quantity of information in one slide may be overwhelming for the audience, therefore separating the information into smaller section will be helpful for learning purposes.

4.)PICK BACKGROUNDS WELL! For a professional presentation, more subtle colors are appropriate while for a "fun"/less professional presentation any color would be suitable.

5.)POWERPOINT SHOULD BE USED TO SUMMARIZE INFORMATION! I hate when presenters read every single word off the slides in their presentations. I might as well just print out your presentation and read it in order to get the information. Powerpoints should be used to highlight the important stuff, the speaker should go off of what the main points are.

My Photoshop image

This combination of the cross, my bunny, and the alcatraz flower symbolize a spiritual unity among nature.