Dealing with a website, something I’d never thought I would be creating, discovering all the different codes JQuery, Div Class, Scripts, Snippets, etc. to produce a masterpiece of perfection. Each little custom font, color, class, button, image all has to do with your code of the website you’re producing. Code is everything, to which it has its advantages and disadvantages. An advantage would be, if you know the code, it’s easy to add and take away a specific design you do or don’t want. For example if you would like your buttons to fade you would just add a click function, type in which buttons you want to have fade out then in and then add in the fade in and out function to complete the effect. If you would like to make it fade fast or slow you can do that too, to which you just type it in as the duration. A disadvantage of the code would be that if you miss a single thing in the function sentence, it will not do what you want it to do. For an example I was adding the different variables on my web page and I put semicolons instead of commas and I could not figure out what was wrong until my instructor pointed out to me that I had the wrong punctuation separating the variables. When I changed it the buttons began to show up how they were supposed to. Overall Dreamweaver is a phenomenal Adobe program I was so fortunate to learn and use.
Freestyle Academy has a really creative twist opposed to Los Altos High School, regular school. Everything we do in Freestyle is all connected within the three classes a student at freestyle may take. For one of our projects named The Profile project, we had to discover a person we believed to be interesting. We had to interview them asking them questions about what their hobbies and daily lives are like. Developing a profiler style of writing with an anecdotal lead, nut graf, chronology, the different scenes, what lies ahead and finally the closing quote. Developing into around 5 page paper we turn into English. Our interviews are then used for our Web/Audio websites that we have a theme whether our website have a color theme with a character design or just a color theme. In design we were asked to create an article as it would look in a Forbes magazine. Having a diagonal, vertical, or horizontal balance, following the elements of design like a focal point, rule of thirds, etc. We also had to include the Photos we had taken of our three interviewers and include them in our article. The writing part was the profile style writing we wrote in English. At the end we added all the amazing products we had created and put in on the website we made in Web/Audio.
My name is Peter Salcido and I have taken a lot knowledge from the Freestyle Academy classes. I have progressed as a person creatively and academically. Gaining skills in Many of the Adobe programs like; Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Kuler along with the music programs Reason, Protools, and Garageband. I hope you enjoy my pieces of art and understand the meaning of what I was trying to portray or even how I make you feel and what you see through my art. In art there are no mistakes.