CAS Blog - October

This month, in C-squared (aka computer club), our small team consisting of me, Prakash, Tanveer, Erfan, and Akbar separated from the rest and began working on the group's website. When we began brainstorming and creating our first drafts, we realized we were in way above our heads. Luckily a new adviser (Mr Read) stepped in and gave a basic 101 on how the internet acctually works. With this foundation in place, we had to reassess our strengths and weaknesses to maximize on what each team member did best. It took two whole sessions of designing and redesigning to get a basic outline of the website we were going to build (without setting our goals too high). The error we encountered first was that we were still learning the basics but envisioned the final product to be on par with those made professionally. I really hope i can put to use the skills i obtained during a six month web designing course i took with Mr Ratliff in 7th grade, its been a long time and standards have changed but i believe the main principals stay the same. I think I was limited back then to my knowledge of a software known as Dreamweaver (by Adobe), this time i'm expanding my insight with basic HTML and CSS (the guts of a website) thanks to Mr Read. Although we get to work with vast possibilities, this approach is a lot more technical and time consuming (I still really want to work with Dreamweaver).