Reflections

So, the independent study ended up being a lot more involved than I had originally planned on it being.

The Drupal site took a lot longer because I had some problems with the Views Module. I finally got it sorted out, and now feel reasonably comfortable using it. My biggest problem with the Drupal site was finding tutorials that were easy to understand. So many of the tutorials out there suppose a level of knowledge that I just don’t have. This doesn’t preclude me from using the software, it just means that I have to work a little harder to figure it out.

The html site I ended up changing templates about 6 times before I finally settled on one that looked like it had most of the main components that I needed already. One of the previous templates I had actually spent about a week tweaking before deciding that it was too much hassle to deal with some of the strange things that the original creator had done with it.

I found the Redish book informative. Most of the content in there I already sort of knew, but she did a really great job of organizing it so that the design elements that I was adding unconsciously were now something that I paid attention to.

The Bell book was helpful for some of the sites that it provided and software that it mentioned. In his book he really talked about different programs that are out there for website building. He talked about the pros and cons to each of them and really helped to give a clear view of what they were like.

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