Wednesdays are when I normally work from home, but this week has changed around because of the holiday, so I will be at home on Friday instead. I continued working on JQuery and I actually finished this afternoon. Apparently I was wrong in thinking it would take me a while to complete. I think I have a solid grasp on it, but I think I'll be looking up more information when I have to work with it. That is fine with me, I actually expect to do that a lot once I'm working on our site. Whenever I start coding again I look up a lot of things just to make sure I am doing things right the first time, so I avoid wasted time debugging later on.
After I finished JQuery I went to the Project section which uses the past three languages to create something. I had anticipated this section taking quite a bit of time, but I was once again wrong. I actually finished it this afternoon after a couple hours. I had thought I would have to review quite a bit, but they had very clear instructions and set it up so you won't get stuck. Also, half of the projects were under development so I couldn't do them... that was probably the main reason it went fast.
I still plan on doing php next, I haven't worked with that since I was in IAD (Interactive Application Development). It's a server language, but it's very useful and straightforward. I know we use it and even if I don't edit it, it will be helpful to understand.
Overall work has been going well. I started to feel like I was spending too much time on these tutorials, but I know they will need to get done and nothing else is pressing. Today Kelly showed me how we do mock-ups and I think I will be doing some of those for Tim. It's essentially taking screenshots and moving elements around in Photoshop. I definitely think that the design work expected of me is pretty simple, so I am trying to stretch myself and think beyond the current outlines. Hopefully this will show through with the overview page and the homepage on the website. The deliverables page was good, but I want to improve with each project, so hopefully these will be even better.
No comments:
Post a Comment