Web design and HTML authoring
My first experience with web design came with ETEC 565A, and the software of choice for me was Amaya. I watched some tutorials on YouTube for Amaya and for NVU and I felt that Amaya would suite my needs the best. I downloaded the software and played around a bit with creating pages and then linking them. It didn’t take long to realize that I needed some structure. It was like I had a bobcat and was just moving dirt around, from pile to pile, without any plan. That is ok as I was just learning but a storyline was needed to make any real progress. So, I mapped up a basic storyline for what I wanted to accomplish in Moodle and began to build some pages. First I referred to the “Web Pages that Suck” checklist and checked out a number of web pages so that I knew what NOT to do. I put in some content and images with links to other pages. Things were working quite well. I then zipped all my files to a zip file and uploaded it into Moodle. Then I unzipped and placed the pages into Moodle.
The process was fairly straight forward and I didn’t really run into problems. That is until I wanted to make changes on a created page. I went back to Amaya to make changes and then reloaded it into Moodle. Moodle, however, had problems with the new page, so I had to rename the page with a number (2, then 3, then 4, etc…). Then a fellow student suggested that I just edit the page in Moodle with HTML code. I am a rookie at HTML but I thought I would give it a try. I managed to do a pretty good job and my edits worked. However, I still had problems with Moodle accepting my changes. I had to do the same thing with saving as a new name. This was all very frustrating. I tested out my Moodle site with Firefox, Explorer, and Safari and I did not notice any noticeable difference in each.