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| Project | Description | Acquired Skill |
| Dreamweaver | ||
| Named Anchors | Anchors are a good way to help users browse your website, especially if there are large amounts of text. By using anchors, users can click the anchor link, and be forwarded to a different section of a lengthy page. |
Created anchors to allow users to go to certain points on the page, which helps browse large amounst of text. Also created tables to hold a lot of text. |
| Navigation | A collection of various navigation methords such as buttons, jump menus, image map, and text bar. |
Learned how to use each type of navigation, and created hot spots with links on a downloaded image. |
| Home Page | My home page with links to the rest of my site as well as contact information, and some general information about the site. | Used dreamweaver to design tables, insert images, text, links. Also embeded videos by editing html code. I also used photoshop to create buttons, and edit images. |
| Online Portfolio | A 5 page part of my site with personal information, résumé, some school projects, and a section for future goals. | A colaboration of DreamWeaver/Photoshop skills I've picked up during the term. |
| Powerpoint | ||
| About Me | Created a basic powerpoint slide show with information about myself. | Created a powerpoint template to be used in all my slides, and used a few design basics. |
| Conscientious Design | Redesigned a powerpoint slide show in order to experience how small design changes can result in major changes to the appeal of a slide show. | Became more aware of the impact small changes in a presentation such as template colors, backgrounds, different fonts, etc. have on a slide show. |
| Designed 2 powerpoint slide shows for different usages. One is to be used in a kiosk environment and includes timings, the other for use by a speaker. (1) - Speaker (2) - Kiosk | Worked with powerpoint timings, contrast, repitition, alignment, proximity as well as the differences in designing for a self presenting show, and a speaker presented show. | |
| Word | ||
| Presidential Daily Briefing | Redesign a presidential daily briefing about Osama Bin-Ladin's intention to strike the U.S. How could it be re-designed to better show the important information in the document. | Worked with fonts, bold and italics type, inserting images into a word document, re-sizing/shaping images, contrasting text, alignment and editing text. |
| Word Exercise | Recreated a document including specific fonts, boxes, colors, pictures etc. | Learned how to use different tools in word. |
| InDesign | ||
| Brochure | Created a brochure for the PLU study away program, advertising, and providing information interested in such a program with information about available programs. | Learned how to create documents in brochure format in InDesign, and implemented the InDesign concepts I've learned during the term. |
| Flyer | Created a flyer advertising dance auditions, learning basic InDesign concepts. | First time using InDesign, learned basic skills such as alignment, picture editing, and basic layout functions. |
