Week 16 - Advanced Web Authroing

23rd JanWe have now experienced the full range of Web Authroing skills that will be taught to us. With each one we have also been encouraged to experiment and add to the existing code to round off and improve. This weeks task focused on iFrames, which are frames of the page which carry seperate media from the rest. Different frames allow for mutliple different sites videos etc to be on one page.

I was less confident with this and it took me a while. Accuratley reproducing the code was initially difficult, as we are still only just coming to grips with the syntax and grammr of coding. I would commonly miss speech marks or close tags etc. After this was done we were challenged to personalize, adding multiple links and changing sizes. I felt more comfortable with this, as having struggled so much to get the code down in the first place, I better understood what each element did. I like the iframe idea and it's many possibilities and will defiently consider using it on my final site if I can refine my codes and techniques.

27th Jan I have had to catch up with a new technique called slicing, as I missed a previous lesson. Slicing is a method which involves Photoshop. The creator creates the entire look of the pag in Photoshop, marks out where buttons will be by giving them sperate layers for how they will look when Up, Down and rolled over etc. Using the Slice tool, the user cuts out the spaces of the buttons. By saving for web and devices and importing to Dreamweaver, they become dynamic interactive objects.

This was probably the thing I have found hardest so far. Possibly becuase I wasn't here for the lesson or because it was just harder, it took the majority of my time in class to figure this out. My main confusions came from organising and exporting the different states through layers and "Save for Web and Devices". i became confused with saving different versions of the same thing in different places etc.

However, in reflection, the complete freedom you get with Photoshop is something I like the thought of. I am definetly more into the visual side of things, and while i enjoy and understand coding, it's easier for me to be able to see a visual outcome from the get go. I will try to keep things simple and more importantly, properly organised in folders when the time comes to make an actual site.