Lesson 8: Imagery

Still feeling stuck with the website and so frustrated I don't even want to try right now.   But I do want to keep up with the lessons.  So, here are my critiques of the websites:

Wikipedia Public Domain:  It's great to know about Wikipedia Commons.  I could spend all day looking at each photo.  The old photographs are particularly interesting to me.  In fact, all the categories are absolutely fascinating.  Definitely a wonderful resource!

Libraryspot.com Image Resources:  This is much better than just going to Google Images, which is my regular practice when I'm looking for something.  The photo of Hillary Clinton as a student alone is worth the visit to this site.

Read Write Web:  I don't really see anything here that is useful.  I mean, it's all very interesting, but I don't see how this is going to help us construct better web sites.  The red is very vibrant, though.

Footnote.com:  Kind of interesting from a historical perspective.  Interesting if you are looking for documents.  

Photoshop:  Useful to know about.  I think I can do everything I need to do on Picassa.

Adobe Fireworks:  If I can get to this level of usefulness, I'll be doing great!

Gimp:  I've been using Picasso, but it's nice to know of another site to try for image editing.  Just at first blush, the site is very off-putting to me because of the dark grey and orange.

Gimpshop:  I would definitely give this site a try if I get frustrated with Picasso.

Chapters 15 & 16:  I'm not quite ready for buttons or audio, but I did read these chapters.  I expect I will come back to them several times in the next few weeks, assuming I can overcome my fear of failure.

Chapter 8 of Beautiful Web Deisgn:  I expect I will return to this chapter also.  Now I'm just trying to figure out what to do next to feel like I'm enjoying some modicum of success with this class.  I've already spent hours on Dreamweaver.  There are some things I really like about it, but I haven't been able to access the basic test web pages I've created and I really don't understand why.  So, I need to figure out a plan for the next couple weeks.  I really want to go back to Nvu.  That felt much more comfortable to me and I want to see if I can create some pages that work and figure out the rest later.