Week Two

My Plan for the week

My plan for this week includes time with my toes in the sand! I’m leaving for the beach on Wednesday and will return home on Sunday. Before I go to the beach, I’m going to spend some time in Margaritaville for the Jimmy Buffett concert! Since I have so much excitement this week, I plan to take my computer with me so while I’m waiting in the airport and during my flight I can do my homework. It will make the wait go by faster and I’ll get my work completed so when I get home I can rest.

What I did / Where I went

This week I went home on Wednesday for the opening of the restaurant (it went great!). I also traveled to Columbus, Ohio for the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer MACC bluegrass festival. It was a great time with even better music. I enjoyed lots of talented bands and ate some delicious food. Since we put on a bluegrass festival back home, the band members know the Rudy Fest Bluegrass Festival crew and come visit every time we go to a festival. Thursday evening, members from multiple bands came to our campsite to jam. I love jam sessions because of the variety of people playing and singing. It rained on us Friday night, but we put on ponchos because the show must go on!

The last band featured an orchestra (yes, at a bluegrass festival!) of children 3^rd grade to high school. It was very impressive and a wonderful twist to the bluegrass band.

On Saturday I went home early from the festival to help the restaurant. It was jam packed on Saturday so I helped bus tables, wash dishes, refill drinks, sweep, mop, and an assortment of other jobs that the waitress and cooks needed done. It was really great to see friends and family enjoying the new restaurant.

What I learned

I finally learned what sitemaps and wireframes are after reading about and creating one of each. I like how you can use them to help to map out a webpage instead of going straight into the page making. I need a guide for most all things I do, so using them will be a great help when I begin my webpage. I used lumzy.com for the wireframe. I didn’t use a lot of the tools it provides yet, but I can see it will be useful when organizing the layout of each of my pages. I used writemaps.com for the sitemap. It was very easy to use!

I knew about the Cloud already because I upload stuff to it from my iPhone and iPad. I never really thought much about what it really is until I read the article Cloud Computing Explained. I never knew that there were actually warehouses that hold the information. So my pictures on the Cloud could be in Oregon, North Carolina, or California! Who would have thought that my Facebook status updates are in the same places as well as Virginia and my Tweets are in Sacramento and Atlanta! Crazy stuff!

What I decided for my website

For my website, I decided to use weebly.com to create it. The site seems pretty simple to use, and I like simple! I have 5 tabs, which include Home, About Me, Snap Shots, Homework, Parent Info, and Useful Links. Within the homework page there will be another tab for Extra Credit and in the Useful Links there will be tabs for Games and Extra Practice. I’m slowly learning how to use this stuff! It can be a bit confusing!