This morning I wanted to take a break from tutorials, so I went back to working on the overview page. I started by looking through the photos again and editing a few more. I am not thrilled with how they turned out, especially to use with my original plan. It is times like this that I wish I would have taken more photography classes... but nothing I can do about that now. I thought I should explore other layouts to see if there is something that would work with the photos better. While browsing through google I realized I had been stuck on an 8.5x11 portrait layout. I found two layouts that I really liked, one is a simple landscape layout with three images going across and the other is a tri-fold but with the outer flaps folded like doors. I think the latter could look cool with an interesting edge using the hexagons. After this exploration I realized how important it will be for me to push myself and break out of the box with layouts. I can usually be creative on a plain page, but I don't always turn the page or cut it down or fold it. It was easier to think this creatively in class because assignments were set up to be that way. However, when Chris brings me something he doesn't have that same expectations and somehow that caused me to forget to be creative in this way. I plan on going with each of these ideas, as well as the original and then get Chris's feedback.
In the afternoon I went back to the tutorials. I am still on the JQuery section and I think it will last a bit longer, like Javascript. There are fewer lessons, but it is definitely a language I don't know well. I am making sure to take my time and ask Tim lots of questions because I know we use it quite a bit. I also think it's something I will be expected to work with and edit, not just read through and work around; which is what I expect to happen with php. After JQuery I plan on doing a section called "Projects" which I understand to be developing web sites/applications using html, css, JQuery and Javascript. Then I will do php and Python, although I think I'll do the latter more on my own time. I don't think we use it much, if at all, so I don't want to take too much time away from other things for it.
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