Chapter Seven

We started to really get into php/form scripting and i learned that php is probably as annoying as html. This isn't really a surprise because it basically is html with some if statements and variables. Spelling, syntax, and caps are so important its hard on the soul and mind.

But joking aside, I learned some good stuff on how to evaluate a submitted form using if statements and variables in a php script. I had trouble at first because i was confusing the name and value attributes of an input html tag. I later accidentally erased the variable declarations in my php and couldn't understand why the weren't showing up in echo's.

However i figured it out eventually and fixed my php. I went for a Black/Gray color scheme for my form to emphasize the "secret" aspect of it.

The form is linked from my index and can be found here:

http://people.rit.edu/~rra9933/409/secretform.html

Chapter Five/Six

I have just finished my midterm and I feel very satisfied with it. I am surprised at how well the layout turned out. I suppose it is because that is how I planned it all when i drew it out on paper. I didn't think it would help so much just to draft it quickly.

The place I used for the project is a virtual world called Granado Espada. I play a game that involves the player (me) in this world called Sword of the New World. The virtual world is vast and very well done. This gave me plenty of content for pictures that i could take as screen shots.

The color scheme was inspired by a forum/messaging board I visit that was made for players of the game here: http://forum.swordofthenewworld.com/.

My midterm is linked from my indexWorking.html page and can be found here:

http://people.rit.edu/~rra9933/midterm/index.html

I am working with my partner on getting pieces of the design document together. We need to meet again before we present.

Chapter Four

Doing this exercise really tested my ability to format a good looking webpage. I had troubles from the very beginning when i tried to center the background image and still have the text placed appropriately over it. The seemingly abstract methods available for doing this always confused me even though i knew i could do it. I eventually got the setup to be a semi-centered static stylized form.

I learned that separating most things logically into divs can be easy, but can be confusing if not not planned out first. I hit an annoying moment when my padding and margins were messing everything up when i changed one div. I also had a strange problem where a picture i was putting into a div (the background picture) was being cut off at the top and bottom. After some messing around, i got the picture to show by setting the height of the div, letting the picture fill out the space.

I targeted this page mostly toward a minimum 1024X794 something pixel resolution because it is very common, and anything smaller would make things difficult when laying out the poem with the picture the way i wanted.

The Poem page is here:
Poem Page

It is also linked in my Index drop menu