Friday, May 4, 2007

STS Class

So, last night I finally went to an STS class...good thing because I think that it might have been the last one. So, the class I attended was Dreamweaver I and it was held at College Library. I did learn some things, but I think that if I were to do it again, I would take Dreamweaver II. So here's some of the cool stuff I learned:
First of all, apparently if you name your homepage "index" (or the page that you want people to see first) then that page will automatically come up first. To illustrate this point, the instructors told us to type in www.wisc.edu/index and it takes you to the UW homepage. I think that this is a very good tip, especially if I were to make bigger webpages-this way, I don't have to cut and paste the specific page that I would want one to see first.
Secondly, I learned how to put an mp3 on dreamweaver. This was actually pretty cool, because I tried to do it on my last project, but failed miserably. Anyhow, it's very easy, you just have to save the music file just as you save images and link to it. There is a way, using CSS (or so the instructors said) that you can have the music file play as soon as you open the page, but because that's particularly annoying, it's not as easy as it used to be.
So I did learn some very useful things, except that if I could do it all over again, I would rather take a higher level dreamweaver and not spend 2 hours on stuff that I've already learned.