So in an effort to record and hopefully reaffirm the things I am learning throughout my independent study, I have decided to start writing about what I’m doing at all times. Constantly, I’m sitting here making revelations to myself and I’m like…well, I’ve already updated my facebook status 14 times today, so I probably shouldn’t post THAT too. Well, here is a way to spare you guys the pain of my spammy comments. Unless you WANT to read them, of course. Anyways, so first let me fill you in on what I’ve done so far today.

I started by going through my tutorial lists, looking for something that could possibly be applicable to my struggles. I went through a few simple tutorials, such as masks and image slideshows, but I think I’m probably ahead of those kinds of things. What I needed now was things that I could apply to a later project (aka hollytitus.com!). I’m not really sure how I got sidetracked, but I decided to make a mini-site that I would eventually upload all of my finished tutorials to. Why would this be great? Because then my professor has an organized portfolio of what I’m doing! How awesome is that? So after a bit of fiddling around with some simple stuff on Photoshop, I spliced the image, and went to Dreamweaver. I stopped, sighing. If it’s one thing I’ve learned in the past two weeks, it is that I’ve been doing everything wrong. WRONG. Real website designers apparently use CSS to create the layout of their website. So now, instead of researching Flash, I’ve found myself HERE:

It seems I’ve gotten extremely sidetracked…but hey! This is something I wanted to do ANYWAYS. It just seems like there is SO MUCH that I want and NEED to learn that I try to do it all at the same time. It just doesn’t work, though. Another thing I discovered today is the wonders of the SLICE TOOL!

Yea, I used to cut up my layout by hand. A very shoot-me-please process. I had a great method down, but now I have an even better one. I’ll never put down my slice tool.

So an other thing I figured out was that Fireworks is really the web designer program. Well, crap, if I had known that, I would have done an independent study on THAT, seeing as how I’ve NEVER USED IT. Now because of that, I got to test out my computer with FOUR Adobe programs open. This baby isn’t even struggling. My darling computer…anyways, it’s time to get back to work. I’ll let you know how the awesome portfolio website comes out!