For my final project, I made a blog for my course character Andrea which you can find here. While I have created subdomains before, this one made me use all of the skills I learned during this class.

First I came up with the concept of what she posts about, the pages she has, and the comments that would have to be under each one. I made a resume for her and rebuilt the business card I made for her earlier. It then took me forever to find a blog theme, font, color scheme, etc. that worked for Andrea’s personality I built over the semester. Sadly once I found things that worked there were of course many problems with how they looked that I had to fix. This is where what I learned this semester really was used.

A lot of the time making this site went into the CSS coding on the backend. First I had to solve the problem of the post slider. Whenever you reloaded the site or just opened it for the first time there was a huge glitch where the photo size was normal but there was double the white space beneath it that wouldn’t go away until the next post came in. This disrupted the flow of the site and since Andrea is a software engineer I couldn’t just leave that error in. So after many hours over a few days of troubleshooting, I figured out how what element was causing the problem, how to override the original code (since I couldn’t find the line in the actual theme files which there are many), and then I added specific code to fix it based on the device you were on. The mobile device especially needed this slider fixed as the original theme cut off the image and the text was unreadable without this fix. Next, to really sell that this blog has been posting for a year I had to get rid of the comment post dates because, unlike post dates, those could not be changed. I then added a hover effect like I have on this blog to reduce the static look of the home page. Finally, I edited the size of the site’s title and description because they were way too small to read, and I added a bit more space between the top of the site and the title. The images below show how I did all of this and you can also see the difference between how it looks on different devices.

Obviously, it is not the smoothest fix as I am nowhere near becoming a computer programmer, but over the weeks of this course, these are all the skills I learned in CSS coding so that my site can look exactly how I want it to. After all I’ve done this semester, this project took the most time and frustrated me the most (especially the individual comments I had to do under different names) but in the end I really enjoyed the final product.

We’ve done it!! We’re at the end!!

I’m going to speedrun through this so I can get to working on some final papers I have . . . so, here is my song of the week!

Need this song injected into my head so that I hear it every second of every day.

Final Project Update

I ended up making my project update on Tuesday, I think, as I ended up getting a lot of work done that night that I wasn’t anticipating doing. There’s not really a lot to say about this, just that I was really happy to have gotten so much done so soon, and my group had also gotten most of their work done as well! We were doing great!!

Final Project

And the final project!

I talk about it much more in the actual post, but I was very pleased with this. I used so much of what I learned to do my parts in this, and my groupmates did an amazing job as well, and we really made something really cool!!

I’m grateful to have finished this in the time that I did. I was nervous that I’d be really late with mine due to having the flu last week, but I managed! And it’s not even 4 pm on Friday and we’re done, so I get to call it a day early. I’m so happy about that.

Very happy with my results, and I hope you all are too!

Overall, this week was fun!! I didn’t think I had much difficulty with my parts in the projects, and I was able to create good and interesting parts for our AI uprising video using what I have learned throughout the semester. I’m very grateful!!

I fear this may be my final weekly summary, or maybe there is one next week, so this is a little sad . . . but I’m grateful for all that I have learned!!

Nothing could have prepared me for how I felt this week. I woke up Sunday sick because my sister was sick (and then my brother and then my sister in law and then my sister’s boyfriend and then my grandma and then my grandpa . . . like it never stopped it was a terrible domino effect of people getting sick) and so I had to cancel work, and then it just kept getting worse and worse . . . I have been in bed literally all week and that’s all I’ve done. I’ve missed all of my classes and this is so unlike me but guess whaaaaat my whole family has the flu!

The flu is not fun . . . I’ve felt miserable and half alive this entire week. So, because of that, there really is nothing to say during this weekly summary. There isn’t even a song for the week because I didn’t play music once, I just rotted in my bed and watched Impractical Jokers and drank water until I exploded.

But, here is my progress update for the final project!

I talked about it in the post, but I plan to be working on my parts of project this weekend, as I’m now finally feeling better and less dead! As for where we’re going, I’m excited to be working on this with my group. We all have some cool ideas and I’m excited to see what it all looks like put together.

Otherwise, that’s all for my weekly summary, because I really didn’t do much this week outside of getting on our document and adding like a sentence every other day and apologizing in the group chat for being ill (they understand and sympathize, so I’m not beat up over it)

Thank you for tuning in!

I am on the verge of exploding I will not lie, the stress that I feel is immense and as I’m writing this it is not letting me export or save my video project from iMovie and I don’t know what I’m going to do!! So I’m procrastinating and starting my weekly summary (update, the moment I finished writing this sentence I WAS ABLE TO EXPORT IT tears came to my eyes because I didn’t think this would actually happen)

Here’s song of the week, of course:

love it love it love it

umm new update on exporting IT WONT WORK BECAUDSE I HAVE NO SPACE AND NOW I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO

now I am trying to send it to my Google Drive but I have no idea if this is going to work

(update: it didn’t . . . but the exporting war will be mentioned on the original video post!!)

Daily Creates

Not much to say about these, but they were fun!! Big fan of the daily creates, they really get my brain working (which is exactly the point!) Definitely needed this before I started working on my papers in other classes this week.

Video Project

I fought a war. A war was fought. I’m still fighting the war. I don’t know what to do. (i won the war (i had to delete all of my phone storage))

Outside of the war of exporting, this was fun! It was nice talking to my family and friends about these things and hearing different thoughts. I also actually had a good time editing too. I just wish I could get it to export . . . my next option is screen recording. Will update this post if I get that to work. (update: i didn’t have to!!)

As I was commenting, I noticed a major flaw . . . people had much smaller videos than I did . . . maybe I am overambitious. It kind of makes me want to rip my skin off, I won’t lie, but the work is already done and I can’t take it back. I just need it to export.

But note for future me, it is okay to not make the most perfect video. You’re still learning, you don’t need to work so hard. Give yourself a break!!

Never again

What a week . . . I am so stressed as I think about my work load, losing scheduling for my job (I work with families directly so they have the power over my schedule and they are taking a break because of stress and moving so basically I’m not working), and this week was miserable for me emotionally from my own personal stuff, but you know what’s good! My brother’s getting married next week!!

Which just made me realize, I will need to get stuff done even sooner because of that . . . all nighters might be pulled . . . anticipate me complaining about stress and sleepiness in my posts next week.

Here is the song of the week (it makes me sad and I was sad so it fits)

But, here’s what happened in ds106 this week for me:

Daily Creates

Not much to talk about with these. I hope the hug thing would help some people feel better. If I could give you guys hugs, I would!!

Regardless, the last DC of the week, making a trading card for my cat, was my favorite. She’s so cute and it was so fun creating traits for her.

Radio Listening

I realized I should’ve made this post immediately after I listened, because I forgot a lot of what actually happened by leaving it until Friday, but it still works.

It was really nice listening to other shows. I wish I was able to make it to the other days, but maybe one of these days I’ll go in and listen on my own.

On that note, I’m excited to see the Video projects people are working on! I saw (and commented on) a lot of ideas and plans, and it seems everyone’s doing their own fun things, so I’m excited to see how they turn out.

Video Plan

I talk about it a lot more in the post, but I was so stressed about this. For the entire week, I had this on the back of my mind, not sure what I wanted to make, but I finally ended up with an idea!! I’m going to interview people around me to hear different thoughts on AI! They’ve already started answering my texts about scheduling it, but I haven’t checked them yet.

I’m really excited for this. I did Yearbook in high school, so interviewing people is no biggie to me, so I’m excited to rebirth the yearbook kiddo in me.

But that was my week!

I plan to schedule my week next week as soon as I get times for the interviews. I think writing down my schedule and following it will make me feel much less stressed.

Good luck everyone!!

This week was different from what we’ve been doing so far. Since our radio show was due we had little else to do and it definitely threw me off my usual routine. While the process wasn’t as fun as I had hoped since most of it was spent stressing out about how well it comes out, the end product is something I can sort of enjoy now that it’s over. You can listen to the podcast and read more about the process to make it here: the little radio show that could. I’m very excited to get back to our normal weekly assignments after this.

Daily creates below!

Day 1: #tdc4454 Splatter The Ink

Day 2: #tdc4458 Change a Letter, Ruin a Book

What a week! I’m so happy for how far we’ve all come!

This wasn’t a super heavy week, post-wise, at least, but here’s a brief summary of my week.

Oh, wait, here’s my song of the week, too!

It should be criminal how short this song is……

Daily Creates

These were fun and easy peasy! I love the ones where I get to open art programs and put stuff together and fiddle with things. It’s so fun to me, really revives the creative kid inside that was brutally murdered to focus on school. They’re back!!

Radio Update 2

Making these updates is always so fun to me, so this was nice to make. It makes me realize how far we’ve come and just how the process has been. It’s very comforting, actually!! It also makes me know how much work we put into it, so that we should be proud of it, and I am proud of the radio and of my group

Radio

The radio itself! Done!! Complete!!!!

I love this so much, I actually don’t remember the last time I had so much fun in a group project. Group projects are supposed to be miserable, that’s how they always have been, but this was FUN?? I think I was blessed with the most fun and creative group members, and I really could not have done it all without them!

Communication was amazing. Everyone contributed, everyone worked hard, and I just feel very warm to have done all of this with them. So, huge thank you to my group for creating this with me. I’m very happy to have done all of this with you guys!! We created something great!!

I talked about the process before in the post and the process post, so I’ll save you that story again. Just know that I’m very happy with our hard work.

I have no idea what we’ll be up to next week, after doing all of this, so I am kind of nervous! But I guess I’ll see where this all goes.

This week was radio show week part 1! We had to finalize our show idea and started making all that will need to go into it. I talk about my progress with that monstrous task here. We also had to make a design for our show which you can look at here.

For my 2 audio assignments, I made a good morning aggressors! message to inspire cheerfulness and a little bit of fear in Aggressive Tech’s loyal supporters. And my weird product ad meets 80s radio show where I truly have no explanation for how I got to the final product idea.

Daily creates below!

Day 3: #tdc4452 Bicycle

A bicycle with a bed attached so when you ultimately get tired of pedaling you have a proper place to rest. Don’t worry about the extra weight!