Archive for June, 2009

8-1: Reflection Blog 08

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

I shared a little much on the last session of how CSS had played a role in the sample website done so far. Now I have the task of properly filling in the blanks where the PHP ends. There needs to be three containers that will have links that change the contents of the other containers. Left, main and right are the containers to be targeted. Two, main and right will be dynamic and there lies the problem.

The dyanmic drive script provides a way to display the contents of the feed easily, but the real engine is a different framework. The inner framework will allow just the listing of the article names in the main div, which would make it easier to send a change to the right div for the article message. I suscpect that at some point, the need will come for me to write something outside of the DD script to link the article titles to the right containter and also send the right content. I am trying to avoid that due to the limitation of the effects we could use.

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7-1: Reflection Blog 07

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

My page was an interesting blend this week of attempting to apply some CSS to divs that would serve as containers in later versions of the web site. There is already an intense amount of CSS that is applied automatically by the dynamic scripts that are in PHP and also Javascript. I did have some issues which made the web page, in my opinion incomplete.

I believe it last passed the Validator, but there is something wrong with how the text is being divided. I am only compounding this problem by not paying attention yet on how I will take the dynamic drive script and modify some of the kits that it depends on as well. This will be interesting as there is already CSS conflicts to solve using ID which affects the rss content boxes.

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I did get paid but wait, there is more

Friday, June 19th, 2009

I received an email stating that I was in the first 50 people to blog about the new style of online rewards. I’m ecstatic really, $50 for just clicking one link and letting you all know that you can now get 5% back from something you love so much already.

I went to a local Apple store and used my Discover card. Weird thing occurred, the employee verified my email address and I received an email receipt. It looks like it just paid again to have rewards!

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It does pay to Discover cash rewards

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Ok so here goes what some might think is just a shameless plug to try to get $50 from Discover. I am being honest when I say that the little credit card holders they have are great, but I can always hope for custom designs. I am part of a promotion where I can buy some things and then get some cash in return, I really can’t lose here. Do you really think I could refuse that 99C classics app any longer?

Someone once told me that Discover was for people with horrible credit and was a scum sucker! I ask people who come into where I work and I ask them how they like the card. Not one single person has had anything bad to say about Discover yet. I learn new things from every customer I meet. It is almost like we are the car Saturn :)

I perused around the various retailers that I could get up to 20% cash back. Just getting 5% cash back is a great deal. In the past I have tried to get some of those types of cards and never got any from the actual gasoline providers. Oh, and right now I am getting 5% cash back on gas at the moment.  Anyway, back to the retailers… I found Itunesafter seeing Apple. I was shocked to discover it didn’t say anything about Itunes. I was thinking to myself, it would ROCK if they gave Itunes.

Sure enough, I clicked on the link with Firefox while I was logged into Discover.com and right away I was getting 5% back. It might not seem like much, but when videos to even iPhone games it can be rack up. I spend a lot on apps and use many of them more than your average joe.To get 5% cash rewards for it… I almost fainted.

Oh, and I ended up getting Bloxx Tower for my wife and then the Classics book for .99 cents. Yeah, I know I saved pennies. But you know, a penny saved is a penny earned.

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Reflection Blog 5

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

This week was an important step to understanding how to try to critique a website. I am not positive that the feeling I have that the sites are geared at the same audience is one that will be shared with the instructor.

I find it odd that I think the competitor’s site looks better, but when there is mispellings and huge mistakes all over ours, it is not hard to make a choice. Most people would not think a doctor would do their own website, but if they mispelled a lot of words and did their own site, would you trust them?

I can stress to anyone that might read this blog to always check your site with multiple browsers. What looks great in IE will not look good in Firefox or Opera sometimes. It is a rule of thumb to always check and in this case of the poor site not checking, some users complain about the menu being huge on the left and the scrolling that they have to do.

However, it did not escape my attention that the competitor had slimmed down what they attempted to do as a core business. By doing this on the website, it seems that the customer can assume that the computer is fixable and to just call or stop in.

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