Here are my 6 scripts:
1) PHP Mail Form - This sends an email to my rit email address with the information that you have filled out in the form. The Name, Email, and Body are all required fields. If any of those fields are not filled in then no mail is sent to my email address and a message is shown stating you didn't enter all information.
2) Secret Society Form - This form allows you to enter your name and to choose an age. From the values you chose, an appropriate message is given back to you on a new page.
3) Drop-Down Site Map - This is a drop-down menu that uses javascript to determine which site you chose and send you to that site.
4) Search - This allows you to search my webpages for keywords.
5) Counter Page - This page uses php to read from and write to a file that contains a counter of how many times that webpage has been viewed.
6) Random Quotes - This page will display a random quote from a list of quotes in a text file.
Extra Popup Image - This uses javascript to pop up a new window with an enlarged image in it when the thumbnail picture of myself is clicked.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Group Project
Our group project was to redesign a website for a client of our choice. We chose to do a redesign of a Rochester based Web Hosting company. There was no current website for this company so all references to this website and content for the company came from web pages that were retrieved from Internet Archive and the most recent page that this site contained was dated August 2007. We have finished the website for our client and you can find it here
Change to Mail Form
I changed the Mail Form that we did in class previously to now use php instead of the FormMail.cgi. Functionality should look and feel exactly how it did previously.
Here is the link to the mail form.
Here is the link to the mail form.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Week 7 Exercise: PHP Form
This week's exercise was to create a php submission form that printed out different responses depending on which radio button control you chose. This was a basic introduction to php and as I have a programming background and have had some experience with php before this was an easy exercise.
Here is the link to this exercise: PHP Form
Here is the link to this exercise: PHP Form
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Week 4 Exercise: Poem
Week 4's exercise was to choose a poem from the "Verse" section of Bartleby.com and then modify the appearance of a web page to match the context of the poem.
For this exercise, I chose Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson. To match the context of this poem I chose to use a black background and a winter time picture that was taking around dusk. I then decided to try and blend the picture into the black background by modifying the picture in Photoshop to give the edges and corners a much blacker look. This allowed the picture to blend in and not be such an abrupt change from the picture to the background.
Here is my poem webpage: Poem
For this exercise, I chose Winter-Time by Robert Louis Stevenson. To match the context of this poem I chose to use a black background and a winter time picture that was taking around dusk. I then decided to try and blend the picture into the black background by modifying the picture in Photoshop to give the edges and corners a much blacker look. This allowed the picture to blend in and not be such an abrupt change from the picture to the background.
Here is my poem webpage: Poem
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Week 3 Exercise Part 2: CSS Zen Garden
For this exercise, we had to get into groups of 2-3 and look through different CSS designs at CSS Zen Garden and choose 1 that was our favorite and 1 that was our least favorite. The group I was in consisted of myself, Bill Dollinger, and Tom Ryan. We all agreed on the one we least liked, but we each had different ones we most liked. Here are is the least liked one that we all agreed on and the one that I liked the most.
Least Liked:
Retro Theater
There were many reasons why I least liked this one. First, the content uses only a very small portion of the screen. Secondly, the layout of the content is very bad and not consistent. Some parts have two columns while another part has 4 columns and yet another only has 1 column. Especially with the 4 column part, the text is extremely hard to read as each column only has 1-2 words per line and you aren't sure exactly how you need to read the sections. In addition the text styling is bad and not consistent as well. Some of the sections have all caps for the entire text which makes it harder to read. Another section has triple space lines and this section is next to a section that only has single spaced lines making it confusing as to exactly how those sections should be read. Also the "Benefits" or "Requirements" sections have a mixture of all caps text and normal non-caps text, making it even more difficult to discern the order in which to read things. Also, the section that has the 4 columns has some overlay of the columns so some of the words get overlayed on top of other words making them indiscernible. Another thing I didn't like about it is a cosmetic aspect; The content section has a .gif file used as the background and this file causes the background to look like it has static on it and it gets quite annoying after a looking at it for a little bit.
Most Liked:
Pseudo Sahara
The first thing that caught my attention on this page was the Desert image at the top. I like deserts and so that was a plus to begin with. Secondly, I liked how the background colors of the sand and sky blend in with the actual image picture making it seem like the image spans the entire screen. This is much better than when an image is cut off abruptly by another color. This design was also very easy to read. The section with links is apparent in the left column and each section of links has an appropriately named header in a "scroll" style header bar which partitions the sections nicely. Also, the header text styles go along with the theme of the design and gives it a nicer feel. Overall, I think the entire page flows very well is very consistent with the text and design. There was only one thing that I didn't care for too much with the page and that is the scroll bar in the upper portion of the left column. This could very easily be removed by a minor modification to the size of that section and it will make the page look that much nicer. This scrollbar is most likely the result of designing the page in IE as when this page is viewed in IE the scrollbars are not there. They are only there when viewed in Firefox.
Least Liked:
Retro Theater
There were many reasons why I least liked this one. First, the content uses only a very small portion of the screen. Secondly, the layout of the content is very bad and not consistent. Some parts have two columns while another part has 4 columns and yet another only has 1 column. Especially with the 4 column part, the text is extremely hard to read as each column only has 1-2 words per line and you aren't sure exactly how you need to read the sections. In addition the text styling is bad and not consistent as well. Some of the sections have all caps for the entire text which makes it harder to read. Another section has triple space lines and this section is next to a section that only has single spaced lines making it confusing as to exactly how those sections should be read. Also the "Benefits" or "Requirements" sections have a mixture of all caps text and normal non-caps text, making it even more difficult to discern the order in which to read things. Also, the section that has the 4 columns has some overlay of the columns so some of the words get overlayed on top of other words making them indiscernible. Another thing I didn't like about it is a cosmetic aspect; The content section has a .gif file used as the background and this file causes the background to look like it has static on it and it gets quite annoying after a looking at it for a little bit.
Most Liked:
Pseudo Sahara
The first thing that caught my attention on this page was the Desert image at the top. I like deserts and so that was a plus to begin with. Secondly, I liked how the background colors of the sand and sky blend in with the actual image picture making it seem like the image spans the entire screen. This is much better than when an image is cut off abruptly by another color. This design was also very easy to read. The section with links is apparent in the left column and each section of links has an appropriately named header in a "scroll" style header bar which partitions the sections nicely. Also, the header text styles go along with the theme of the design and gives it a nicer feel. Overall, I think the entire page flows very well is very consistent with the text and design. There was only one thing that I didn't care for too much with the page and that is the scroll bar in the upper portion of the left column. This could very easily be removed by a minor modification to the size of that section and it will make the page look that much nicer. This scrollbar is most likely the result of designing the page in IE as when this page is viewed in IE the scrollbars are not there. They are only there when viewed in Firefox.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Week 3 Excerise: FormMail
Here is the link to my FormMail:
http://people.rit.edu/~jxw0533/409/mail_form.html
This was a relatively easy exercise as it was more of a refresher for me sine I have done some coding with forms and we were provided the FormMail.cgi file. I then formatted the formmail page so that everything is centered and the Name and Email are in a table so that the text boxes line up properly.
http://people.rit.edu/~jxw0533/409/mail_form.html
This was a relatively easy exercise as it was more of a refresher for me sine I have done some coding with forms and we were provided the FormMail.cgi file. I then formatted the formmail page so that everything is centered and the Name and Email are in a table so that the text boxes line up properly.
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