Thursday, March 19, 2009

Back to Lesson 9

Now that I've finally got my wireless working, I thought I would get up early this morning and finish up with  Lesson 9.

I looked at FlashVista.  I really don't like flash and don't think I want to use it in my website, ever.  It makes me feel nervous and jittery whenever I see it.  I love the look of the Flash Tutorials website, however.  Very simple and very calming colors.  I might be inclined to look at the tutorials just because the website is so attractive.

Site Pal:  Very interesting!  I could see where this would be very useful with many sites.  I don't like the idea of having to pay for it, though.  I did watch the tutorial and it looks surprisingly simple.  I will definitely check this one out again after I make a little more progress.

Adobe Flash:  Hard to  ever imagine I will progress to the point where I need to use this, but I'm keeping track of all these sites for when I'm ready.

Swift:  Don't like the look of this site.  Blue and gray does not seem to be a good combo here, at least in these shades.  Like the animation at the bottom, though.

Swish:  Much more attractive site.  The free trial looks very interesting.

Hot Scripts:  I don't really understand exactly what this is, and would have to spend a lot more time on this site.  By looking at the top-rated scripts, it became a little clearer to me -- it looks like an application or program that does something that someone has already created the code for, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel.  Great idea!

Soundstage:  I used Audacity to create an mp3 file last semester, so I was really interested in this subject.  Very interesting information.

Streaming Audio:  I'm not really interested in streaming audio at this time, but it doesn't look that complicated.  This website looks kind of bland and boring, and I don't really feel inclined to explore it.

Audacity:  I've used this before, and now that I've learned about good web design, I can really appreciate their site a lot more.  It's blessedly clean and simple looking.  Makes me want to jump in an make another mp3 file.  Oh, if only I had time!

Musicovery:  This looks kind of cool.  I'll definitely have to come back here and explore.

Pandora Internet Radio:  This looks too cool to believe!  I am definitely coming back to this site as soon as the semester is over.  What an adorable website!

Amaya:  This looks like another web editor.  I'm definitely willing to try another one.  Weird choice of colors with all the browns, though.  It does not instill confidence. . . .

Trellian:  Good to know about this one two.  I don't really want to change horses in the middle of the stream.  Messing with DreamWeaver was bad enough.  Next time I will give this one a try.

SeaMonkey:  I've already used this one.  I thought it was okay for what I needed, but I don't think I would go back to it.  Love the name!

Free text editors:  This looks like a wealth of information.  Cool looking site, also.  The purple and yellow seem to work -- kind of calming.  Not a combo I would have chosen, but sometimes different color combos can be very surprising.  





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