Thursday, October 8, 2009

Now I'm a Web Designer!

We have been working on a website for the last two weeks. It's interesting to think about all the things that I have learned to do in that time that I either a) had no desire to do, like post a video to YouTube, or b) never imagined I could figure out how to do, like come up with a survey and get it up and running. Neither of those things are as difficult as I imagined them to be, but the learning curve can be kind of steep in some aspects. For example, even with YouTube, which is pretty easy to use in general, it took me a lot to be able to find the video I posted. Maybe "Coach Smith" is too generic of a name for a video, but I had to go back to my account information on YouTube to be able to figure out what the url for it was to post it on my site. When embedding anything on the site, I also didn't realize that it wouldn't show the video, map, etc. until you clicked "Save." It took me several minutes to calm myself and keep from throwing my Mac Mini through the window. Pasting using Google Sites was a nightmare as well. My wife, who is an experienced Blogger user, had to tell me to go up to the navigation bar at the top of the screen to be able to paste anything, because Google has no way of doing it using the right click. STUPID! I also couldn't figure out how to switch the order of my pages on the sidebar. It's not that significant, but I want it to look the way I want it to, not just in the order of when I added it. However, even with the slight hiccups, I made it work. Things turn out alright in the end. Here is the link to my new page: 

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