Thankfuly the course is long since over and I graduated. If anyone stumbles
across this page and wants to chat, my e-mail is at the bottom. I wish I could have done a better job and it seemed
most things I did for that professor turned bad, fast, after far too much work.
It is extremely unlikely I'll "fix" this one, but I did know what's
wrong with it.
1. The topic was impossibly broad and should have been disaproved.
That in turn is the cause of it being less useful and being extremely hit and miss about what it covers.
By the way the URL for my CSLIS440 Pathfinder project is actually at http://home.sprintmail.com/~irvkoch/id2.html . I am eventually going to have a back up site, since the edit-site for this
one goes down so often. I may leave this one up at http://irvkoch.tripod.com -- which is currently a failed attempt at the backup site.
It took me forever
to do this and I just plain ran out of time.
2. Couldn't figure out how to work "anchors" with this system.
(Note
the trend towards even "free" sites to include GOOD, or better, built
in, web site builder software.)
3.
Could neither "float" the navigation links nor put them on the page
where I wanted. (Template systems have drawbacks.)
Also could not make them look like buttons or otherwise more obvious.
4. Managed link table at the bottom of
pages to compensate for not
being able to float the link set but it's not very good.
5. Not sure if it's a
real defect, but I could not get the text to go
across the entire page once it got below the navigation links "bar."
6.
Lines within paragraphs and paragraphs themselves often will not
format and, possibly worse, all formatting varies wildly
with different
settings of the same browser -- so I don't even want to think what
different browsers will do to it.
7.
Numerous small format inconsistancies or glitches that just needed more time to hunt and fix. I also would have liked,
if I hadn't wastes so much time on the impossible topic, to have done things with color and pictures.
7.5. I did not get to insert the Spanish flag. It is, however,
below.
8. Various improper "cites" within the main text. Users won't care
and at least the cites are there.
9. Did not get to properly deal with color scheme.
10.
DUE TO MULTIPLE SYSTEM FAILURES and both my ISP and backup ISP going totally crazy, and the webbuilding system online being
down entirely, off and on, I did NOT finish by the midnight deadline for the course. There were 5 sources I simply
did not put in "other books." The final page on websites is too shoddy.
There are also several cites (credits) simply missing. I did not forget them;
I just ran out of time to put stuff in.
a. Two class textbooks consulted (440 and the alternate one from 420).
b. I failed to credit http://www.flaglady.com for the flag pictures or tell how I finally managed to cut and paste in stuff
like that. (Download, find jpeg in file, upload as a picture.)
c. I wanted to run an example of finding and using a site that gave all Spanish
artists in museums.
d. Again, that last page is poor. I was counting on making up for the
rest being hit and miss by giving sites for art, music, sculpture, politics, and ... every things Hispanic.
11. There is also some stuff that didn't sort properly in the Consolidated
Bibliography and I didn't get to fix it.
OH WELL. Next, I may do a blog and finish the "real" home page to this one
At least that one is OVER. (I got a B.)
AND ... there is a "Multi-cultural Sources" Course, later. I may
still yet be able to salvage either some of this or the "410" project that IT was supposed to have been salvaged from.
11a. When it was all over, however, some of the 410 material was used for SOME of the Things Hispanic "440"
"Basic Reference" course but I went entirely elsewhere for the Multi-Cultural class. I did a nice "bib" somewhat
like this website for "Scientific and Technology Info." and did upload it -- it's for Industrial Engineering.
I ended up doing "Gay/Lesbian" for "Multi-cultural." I will likely eventually put that paper
and bibliography "up here." Ditto what I did for other courses. Especially if I can find a way to change
the top header that insists on carrying over to EVERY page. As you can see, I did put up some material from my
very last course, Young Adult Literature, and also finally put up the Resume.
12. There are two more failed "free" "backup" websites out there. I
have long since forgotten their URLs.
13. The Library School was being killed. Not just closed. Killed. Nasty deal.
I'm leaving up the link to Clark Atlanta University, for now, but it goes to a generic "Academics" page.
14. I STILL may do a blog someday....
15. The homepage that goes with this needs updating for links to other projects.
16. Much to my surprise I was hired for a temporary part time job for which I came in 3rd in the national
competition to get the permanent version. I was told that they were surprised they were able to afford the
people who beat me. Visitors to here may want to check out that institution: http://www.spsu.edu/library .
