Welcome! My name is Ana and this is my very first finished web page. Before taking my Web Design class this year as a senior at Kennedy High School, I took a Networking class where I learned about routers, viruses, and assembling back together a PC. This year, my knowledge about web pages was widened. I began learning with a basic program to create images for a web page: Photoshop. Photoshop was an essential to learn how to make collages, or make new designs to a picture of yourself, and most importantly, to know how to portray an idea or message through those pictures. Editing is quintessential in the way that you must know how to use the tools such as Lasso Tool, to crop parts of pictures, the Paint Bucket Tool, the Layer effects, and how to filter images. Secondly, Flash was also a big part in creating the final piece of this web site. In using Flash, I learned how to create buttons, give commands to each button, and know how to assemble a piece that will not look just plain, but rather it will have movement in it. Thirdly and most important was Dreamweaver. With Dreamweaver, I learned how to use coding for web sites, and which codes corresponded to which part of the web site. One was HTML, where all the coding was placed. All the visuals would go under this part of Dreamweaver. The "backstage" essentials go on what is called a CSS file. The CSS file contains all the coding for the background color, the size of the containers, the width, etc. With these skills, the most interesting job I would want to have is to continue using these programs to create informational web pages about businesses, of for that matter, anything.

The past year I spent a lot of hours working with technology. Recently, my last project was this assembled web page. As you can notice, there are many essentials to finalizing a web page. First of all, using Dreamweaver for the coding of the web page; all the coding is done in this program in order to add images, text, and Flash images. Secondly, you must use Flash to create the buttons that will take you to the additional file which is a part of the main web page. In order to do this, the designer must know the tools to use. For instace, I had to use tools such as Layer effects, and command actions. These would allow my ad to create movement. And my "moving" images had to be created under Flash. Then, finally after I had the different porjects in Flash, I began using Dreamweaver to assemble all the HTMLs together in one web page and linking them together with specialized coding. I also used CSS for the "backstage". This included things such as background color, width, alignment, and height of a container, and the separation of the many diffenrent divs and their respective widths, alignments and heights. Back in the HTML page, I had to insert the Flash images under the 'Commands' tab into the web page using Dreamweaver. It took a lot of weeks of practice to learn and prepare this HTML page. It also was stressful, but the idea of wanting to see the final piece encouraged myself and my peers to finish. It was all worth taking in the sight of our creation!