Learning Blog 4

It's been an interesting day of file building and image designing today! My front page is very basic right now. I'm trying to decide where I want to put things, but think I decided that I want to have the navigation bar on the left side of the page. Once I have some of the content decided I can build more sub-sub folders :o)

I tried uploading my files to the mlis server but got this error message (I'm using FileZilla)

Status:Resolving address of mlis.stkate.edu
Status:Connecting to 140.225.55.247:21...
Status:Connection attempt failed with "ECONNREFUSED - Connection refused by server".
Error:Could not connect to server


I'll try again tomorrow afternoon.

The articles for this week were interesting. Especially the one about terms & vocabulary that library patrons find confusing.
Also, the article that said you shouldn't have a link to the page you're already on because it might be confusing. I think I've seen this on sites before, though. Ones that have a banner at the top of the page with a link to the homepage even when you are on the homepage. I don't think that's confusing, but maybe that's just me. It IS nice to know what page I'm on, though, and having tools like breadcrumbs (page>>subpage>>anotherpage) can be very helpful.

Major challenges this week...none, really. (except maybe uploading my files if I keep getting that error message!) Putting together what I have on the pages so far was fairly easy, though I have to admit I was excited when my external link opened in a new tab :o) That's one code I'd never used before. I like that the text book lays it out so you can just copy the code into your own file.

Not sure if I can call this an "ah-ha" moment but I'm starting to understand when to use the "../file" element. Most of my files are in sub-folders of sub-folders so I had to use this a few times. Trial and error! :o)

As a note: I may be late for class this week. One of my favorite authors is doing a signing in Stillwater at 5pm. I'm going to try to be there early, get my books signed, and go. But, I don't know how traffic coming out of Stillwater will be at rush hour...