Knowing HTML code

To find the reason why web designers should know HTML code when there are so many fancy technological programs that will make it all easier for them is a good question. At the beginning, I wasn't sure why, but then I thought about it a little bit closer, and it actually made sense to me. These "fancy technological programs" such as Dreamweaver and Expression Web are basically based on HTML code so it is still important to know it. On top of this, knowing HTML code will facilitate and more than facilitate, will allow the person with this knowledge to correct anything on a website, no matter with what program the website was actually made.

What I learned from Chris Nolan

I learned a lot of interesting things from Chris Nolan. Most of what I learned came from Google. This makes sense because Google is what I use the most when searching for websites for research papers and basically anything from school. I learned that there are differences between directories and search engines. Search engines are based on an algorythm and directories are just a compilation of information or in this case websites, and organized under different topics or names. I learned a little bit more about the Advanced Search option in Google and this is very useful when looking for specific information. I learned about Google Scholar too and how this can be even more helpful for research papers. It will only give me sholarly material and not just random, non important websites. He also talked about how the different top level domains can tell us a lot about the website. It can tell us things such as like if the website is governmental, or if it is an organization, etc.
Something that I found out. thought was really interesting to me, and that I didn't remember (if it is the case that I ever even knew about it) was that when looking for something in google, some websites have a "cashed" option. What this means is that google has an online copy of what the website contains. On top of that, the copy has the words we're looking for highlighted, which can definitely be very helpful when searching for a specific thing in the website.

Favorite Powerpoint Presentations

I think that one of my favorite powerpoint presentations was the one of Steven Sheppard. I thought he really knew what he was talking about. His presentation was about a literary award about science fiction stories. His background pictures throughout his presentation were really interesting and lively because of the colors used. The music he chose was very good too, perfect for his theme.
The second one that I thought was very good was the one that Ralph Petang did. His presentation was about soccer, but more than simply talking about the basics of the sport, he talked a lot about the feelings and emotions that people can and should have when playing soccer. It was all done in a very poetic and peace inducing way. His slides went by in a fluid way, not overcramming them, and the calm music he chose was really appropriate too.

My presentation which was about the business of music can be found in here:
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