My name is Jeremy Ward. I go to John F. Kennedy High School, I'm a senior graduating this year on June 11th, and I have a very healthy background in computers thanks to the IT Academy. It ranges from web design to experience with networking on Windows computers, Linux and Macs.My goal is to possibly find a way in which I can have a career I love and enjoy and hopefully make lots of money in, but at the same time I want to enjoy my hobbies a lot more like drawing, and listening to my music. I enjoy learning new things about computers, and technology in general, and I hope to find a good career in computers, and the IT Academy is real helping me walk through the doors to my future.

What I learned in the IT Academy is a lengthy list. It ranges from web design and HTML and CSS to a little bit of Macromedia Flash, to Photoshop. Not only have I combined all three into a website, but I have also learned the networking aspect of it, from setting up and installing DNS servers and DHCP servers, to learning more about Linux and about the SHELL and using the terminal for programming. I have learned the hardware, and still am learning it, and I've learned about the software as well. I've learned about how to use Linux to log onto a Windows computer using server based clients and I've figured out how to fix a lot of simple and complex problems with computers from slow startup and bad internet connection and I've even learned in Linux how to mount a disk onto another computer. I have learned a lot about networking when it comes to how network traffic affects speed and just exactly what happens in the network when you type in yahoo.com.I learned how to use Adobe AfterEffects a smidgeon and Adobe Premiere Pro a little bit as well to create small videos. I have figured out a little bit more about HTML through practice and through many various projects, and all my web pages were built from scratch. The IT Academy helped me to be well rounded in all facets of computers. And this is my website, my senior project basically.

So for this website, my project was to design a two column website, professional looking, with a masthead at the top and links to my resume and my old project I made in sophomore year in a right div.. I started out by making four divs, a top, left and a right div, and the left and right are in a container div. I made a CSS page to style it, and I made the container 900 pixels wide, same as my masthead and to center it I used a margin:auto. The container div is 900 pixels wide, and I made the widths of the left and right div 600 pixels and 300 pixels respectively. I mad60 the left and right div float left so that they end up right next to each other. I made the masthead in Photoshop from scratch and I linked it to my page by putting it in the top div using an image source tag. For my resume I converted it into a pdf file and linked it in the right div, under a nav id which I called main navigation. And I put the bullet points by using an li tag to make it into a list. I linked my old website by using an a href tag and I called it portfolio. And I chose the color scheme using colorschemedesigner.com using a triad and ending up with a canary yellow, and in interesting shade of red and blue, which are the exact colors I used in my masthead. I thought yellow would be a soothing color. I hope you enjoy looking at my website for however long you wish to peruse it.