I messed with a lot of FLash today, and played around in it. I made a great portfolio that I'm alsmot done with, I just need to fill up the Favorites folder. I'm thinking inputting Music Players to play on the webpage, but I'm still not sure what I'm going to do about it. I learned a lot today, including Motion Tween action script, and Folders and Layers properties.

I continued to work on my electronic portfolio today. I really tried to make it a fun environment and a lot neater and nicer. I'm really going to simple with my portfolio. I'm really excited with the way it turned out, just the way I wanted it too. It really took a lot of ActionScript, and my Java class helped out with seeing what the ActionScript was all about, and what I needed for certain instances.

Why am I getting an error?

Today I worked on my ePholio more, more on the homepage. I'm really happy about my homepage. I'm also working for transitions to other slides, such as Education, which is on a separate frame. I'm trying to make an actionscript on a button that takes you to a different frame, skipping over the others in order. It's pretty hard and stubborn, so I've been having to look up how to do it in ActionScript. It's very similar to Java, and because I'm working a lot more in Java in my Computer Science I class, I am understanding ActionScript a lot easier, and I am learning a lot. For example, we're working on the If Statement in my java class, and I just wrote an if statement for a button in my Blog. An if Visible tag, since I fade in the Education button on the navigation bar.
I'm having a lot of fun in this class, and hope I can complete everything and up to my standards by the end of the school year.

Today I worked on my flash portfolio more. I was really fascinated with the new flash after the break, and refreshed my memory with a lot of actionscript. They moved a lot of stuff, but I think I'm finally getting the hang of it. Everything looks different, but I really like some changes. It's a different environment  but it's frustrating whenever a code doesn't work.

Today it's a short 20 minute day. For this block I am just going to customize my blog. I'm looking at backgrounds and different layouts, learning a lot of stuff that I didn't originally know about Blogger. It's a really cool website -- I really like the layouts. The only thing I dislike is the lack of backgrounds. There aren't that many, and less are really taken seriously. They should have a lot more backgrounds. I'm kind of into the current one, but maybe I'll browse for one. I really like my layout a lot, and it's customized. I learned how to customize my layouts, browse for backgrounds in blogger, and HTML code in Blogger

Today I looked around and browsed on more hosting websites. I also worked on my Efolio, and made it a lot more smooth and slick. It's getting to the point where there might be too much bling and buttons on it. I'm not sure, but I think I'm going to have Zach take a look at my EFolio. I am learning a lot in this class, but time flew by really fast!

Today was a short 42 minute day, so it was pretty short. I really just messed around in flash a little bit, fixed  some Action Script, and learned only a few things. I changed up the layers, being more specific. I separated a lot of them so there is only one object, and I renamed it. Also, I grouped a lot of items together so that Inside, they would be broken apart. CS6 is pretty similar to CS3. I don't really think there is that big of a learning curve at all, unlike my peers. There is a big similarity, only a slight difference.

Today I worked more on my Efolio! I have the home page almost completely done, with pictures of myself and all. I decided to change up the backgrounds, and make them change. I couldn't settle with one background, so I learned how to make the background fade as a new title was selected, which I am pretty proud of even though it was quite simple, it still looks really amazing! I like it a lot, since I couldn't settle with one background color anyway. Now my backgrounds all have the same color theme, all I have to do is figure out a color for the Contact Me page, since I've already picked 5 colors to change. Color is really important in Backgrounds, too light of a background is straining to read, and to dark of a background might blend in with the text. I don't want white because that's way to white and way to boring anyway. I'm not quite sure on what I want to do with the Contact Me Background page, but I'm sure I will figure it out on Thursday when it's a manic day in this class. I cannot believe the quarter is almost done! This class is half way through, even though I am going to take Web Design III for sure.

Today I started some more on my portfolio. I got some pictures from home that I have created in the past, and I worked a little bit on my website as well. I learned about PHP coding, and explored some more hosting websites. BlueHost, HostGator, iPage, there's a lot of cheap web hosting websites. I can't wait until the School Tech admin comes to talk to us so I can ask some questions about hosting, and how to import PHP coding through a web hosting website. Also, I want to ask how much money is spent on the website through Network Solutions, because a lot of websites say 5.99/mo, but that's with a whole bunch of ads with their names all over it, which I don't really want. What I'm going for on my website is clean, simple, to the point. No ads. Ads really ruin the cool factor of the website, and would be super annoying. Personally, I hate ads, and I definitely don't want any on my website. On the other hand, I don't really want to pay more money, but if that's what it takes then I might as well. I can't wait until the admin comes here, I have so many questions for him.