Current status

I know. I haven't been writing in this blog as much as maybe I should be. I am finding it difficult to keep working on webpage on a regular basis. I work on it a little at a time, then leave it alone for a while. I know there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't want to fall behind on it either.

The good news though is that I'm close to having it the way I had envisioned it. I just need to format the last page on it and insert the hyperlinks to my reading blogs. (I want to put them in the images on those pages, but I haven't figured out yet how to do that.) I also wonder if I can somehow embed the blogs directly into my website. I'll just have to keep trying and see what happens.

(Some) Progress

As the saying goes, inch by inch, everything's a cinch. I have finally made some good process on my website: I have successfully created and upload additional webpages to my web space! Unfortunately, it's a bittersweet victory. Though I've linked these pages to my homepage, some of the links aren't working properly. One of them, for my blog about Alice in Wonderland, shuts itself down after loading its page, and the one that leads to my Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde blog won't load at all. I've made sure that the links are all in place and that everything that needs to be uploaded is there. I can't figure out what has gone wrong, or why some links are working while others aren't. Hopefully someone from my class or Dr. Simon will be able to help me out with this problem.

On the up side again, I have started my Alice in Wonderland blog. I originally came up with this idea for a blog because I was wanting to read this book, as well as others, and this gives me an excuse to do so while continuing my studies.

I made the blog using Blogger, same as with this one. The idea is to link it to the correct page on my website somehow, though I'm wondering if there is a way to transcribe the blog post directly to the webpage.

Status

Building a webpage is harder than I thought! I've just been concentrating on my site's homepage while I try to figure out how upload my page to the web. I can't seem to upload no matter what i try, even with help from my classmates. I'll have to talk to my teacher to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

On the plus, I have started to add things to my webpage, like a title and some images, though the images aren't showing up in the preview. I'll have to work on this further. As I start learning about layout this week, hopefully I'll be able to add a background and the other pages for my blogs.

Speaking of blogs, I know need to keep at this one as well. I'll try to add two or three new entries a week, to keep a better track of my progress.

Hopefully, I'll get caught up this week.

Websites (mine and others')

I have reviewed the websites from Blackboard for this week's lesson on web statistics. This is an important function on the Internet because Internet usage figures will often influence everything else that happens online. My favorite site was the Internet Traffic Report (catchy name). Internet connection times may be the most important statistic to gather on the Internet since it almost shows the relative "health" of Internet connections around the world and shows where improvements might need to be made. I also liked that this website's information is presented in a straightforward manner that even I can understand.

As for my own web project, I have a better idea now of what I would like to do. I will do a blog of my reading activities, as I said before, but I will read more than one book over the course of the semester and keep a blog for each one simultaneously. This will give me the multiples pages for my website that I need. I still need to start designing and publishing a web page, which I haven't had time to do yet. I hope to get that done this week, I don't want to fall behind.