Putting up a Home Page
Week 5
September26, 1995
Reynilda Cortez
Dr. Leon James
How much negative emotions did it cost you all in all?
Very little 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Much
This week's rating= 1
How valuable for later use is this knowledge or skill going to be for
you?
Not useful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Very Useful
This week's rating= 10
How likely is it that you'll be getting good at this week's tasks?
Not likely 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Quite likely
This week's rating= 10
How hard did you try to get through this week's tasks?
Gave up easily 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Refused to give up
This week's rating= 10
According to my ratings it seems that I had a much easier time
this week compared to last weeks assignment. I think that it was much
easier because we have been doing this type of assignment for the past
three weeks. For example, copying a students file and downloading it. I
remember doing this in Assignment 4 and Assignment 3. I'm glad that the
pst assignments can help us in our future task. I wonder if we'll be doing
anymore hard task? I hope not!
I noticed that I was on the computer for a long time. On Friday I
was on the computer from 9:20 a.m. to 1:50 p.m. I completed the first and
second subtask within two hours. For the rest of the time I was putting
links on my report. I also went to CLIC LAB on Sunday for three hours.
This week we were not given a lot of task. Our first task was to
select a Hompe Page from Generation One (Psy 409) student. After
selecting it we had to copy it on to our CSS directory and then modify it
as we wished. Our last subtask was to add on links to all of our
reports.
For the first task I went into Netscape to copy a students Home
Page. The student that I selected was Asahina. I saved her file on my
personal diskette. I got this idea from Week 3 Assignment. After I
saved it on the disk I change my screen to the FTP screen. I went to
this screen because I wanted to transfer Asahina's file onto my CSS
directory. This is were I spent most of my time, because I forgot what to
write for Profile Name and Remote Host. After ten mintues of plugging in
different words I finally got it. I changed my directory to "a:". Then
I highlighted Asahina and pressed the arrow that was pointing to the
right. Pressing it will transfer my file to my directory. Now my next
task was to view it in pico or emacs. but before doing that I wanted to
check if my file was in my ls.
At the ftp>, I typed get Asahina. It said that it was "not
Connected". Since it said that I realized that I was not connected to my
server, so I typed in www.soc.hawaii.edu. Later I typed my name and
password and this time I remembered not to type my e-mail address. I use
to get them mixed up all the time. When I sucessfully got in I typed get
Asahina again, and this time it said "Port Command Successful". After
gettting my file I typed ls to see my list of files in my server. It was
in there. I noticed that it was named differently though, it was called
asahina.htm. Why does it do that? I remembered that the same thing
would happen in past assignments. Now I was ready to check it in pico or
emace.
I chose to view in pico because emacs was giving me a difficult
time. When I viewed it in pico I notice that Asahina's report was in html
form. Now my next task was to modify it. The first thing I did was to add
"Como Esta", because she had a lot of greeting's except for this one.
Then I change most of her bar lines to bird lines. I did not want to
modify it too much so I left it. Working on her home page gave me an
idea. When ever I needed to make a link or get an image I can look at
other students sources. If you are interested in Asahina Home Page you
can find her hereGeneration 1. I
was now ready to work on my links, because if
I had any problems I could view it in other sources that have them.
I enjoyed putting my links on my reports. At first I had a hard
time putting it in because I was not typing out the link correctly. When
I was not sure of what to type I checked in my notes first then I looked
at some fo my fellow classmates sources. Looking at their sources helped
me a lot. If the sources were not available I would probably been in the
computer lab for days. Some of the sources that I looked at were
lmorita,nitsa, and ckealoha. They all had beautiful Home Pages. On my
Home Page I added Lori Morita's Home Page, Dr. Leon James Home Page, and
Genration One Home Page. I also added a "Leave me a message" on my
reports. I've always seen this message on other peoples Home Pages and I
use to think that it would be so neat to have it on mine. Finally I
have one too. Yea!!
After accomplishing my task for Week 5 I thought that I could get
out of this freezing computer room. But for some odd reason I wanted to
stay longer. I was so impressed with some of my classmates Home Pages I
wanted my Home Page to look nice too. So I instead of calling it a day I
stayed back to work on my Home Page.
I noticed that my knowledge with computers are expanding. At
home I work with a Macintosh and at school I work with the IBM. I chose
to work with both computers because I wanted to get as much experience
with them. I hope that I will some day be able to write my report at
home and bring my diskette to the Mac Lab and transfer my report into
html form. I tried it this week but it did not work for me. Nitsa tried
helping and it would not cooperate. I will try to transfer it again next
week. I hope that it will work.
Overall I think that I am getting use to working with the
computer. I no longer dred going to the computer lab because I feel
good when I can accomplish my task. Within the past 5 weeks I have learned so
much that can help me with my future task. I remeber when we were given
the syllabus on the first day of class. I thought to myself that I would
not be able to do these assignments. But, so far it seems that I am able
to do it. I hope that I will be able to get through the rest of the
school year.