Category: web classes in sccc

Just got this assignment done in class.  Created two new pages and their links, dinner.php and about_us.php.  Then I made a part of my travellog_list.php editable.  Changed the class link to my application on zephir. So I will let this rest for a while and then think about going back and doing the extra credit.

update 03/17/2011

Woke up this morning, realizing that  yesterday I changed the class link to my application, instead of the construction page; there was no way now to get to the spreadsheet. So I sat done to fix that and a couple of other things also.

Added a link to the spreadsheet on the admin dashboard.  That seemed like the logical place for that document.

Deleted the preloaded text on the TravelLog_view.php page as I did yesterday with the TravelLog_list.php.

Added the last pages that was added to the site for RTE and nmPreload to the spreadsheet.  Did  not add all the files that were added when installing FCKEditor.  I was not sure that it made sense to add to my spreadsheet of files that make my application functional.  FCKEditor is an application added to add functionality to my application.  Many files were added to my application in a folder named fckeditor, in fact I haven’t even looked at most of these files.  In troubleshooting I would try to tackle the files  that were added by me, config.php and fckconfig.js (which I did add to the spreadsheet) to the application and then would try a reinstall of the FCK Editor.

This was basically done by the end of class.  I have done all the downloading and uploading to the server to make it all work in class.  At home I updated the spreadsheet, construction page  and add the extra code to my travel log list and view page. I also created all the thumbnails and wrote the blog entry.  This all took about a three hours.  That might seem time-consuming but most of this was creating the thumbnails.  I also had a problem with my blog loading slow and so there was some up-keeping there as well.

Update 03/16/2011

I spent this morning dealing with cleaning up the site.

Things I accomplished

I commented out the model pages for the nav in the config file.
Centered the form in the contact page.
Changed the assignment 10 link to Sign In on the nav.
Changed the text that appears on every page to something more personal.
Moved sidebar 2 to the footer_inc file
cleaned up the theme css file

Things I didn’t accomplished

Tried to change the css but was getting odd results so I will have to work on that
Tried to change the h tag on the pages to read for example index and not index.php but haven’t figured outhow to change the php to drop the .php
wanted to change the text on the travel log  pages but didn’t know what to change it to
need to really work on the css. It is bothering me that all the text is not formatted and such.

 

 

 

Well it seems like I got behind in this class since here is a big post with a bunch of assignments to document.  Really though most of it was done and because of my ongoing befuddlement with C# I did not get around to documenting the assignments.

Assignment 7

It was basically  done in class that day and was working.  This is a second example of the application.  The first I had named sprockets and did working along in class.  Then I created a frogs application right after class that day to retain the knowledge.  The only other things I have done to it is this last weekend I spent a couple of hours working on the CSS and documenting the files added to the spreadsheet.  I am still not happy with the CSS.  I am sure that when I know all the parts of this application I can then go back and make the extra classes and maybe some wrapper divs to get to the a look that I like.  Also I am keeping in all the extra explanations that are the pages so that when I come back to this to study I won’t have to start over from the download files.  This looks like a good thing to have on my site to play with.  So I am thinking a lot of description is good for now. That is why I am keeping the muffins and model pages.

Assignment 8

This is the assignment that took me the longest to finish out of class.  I decided to just use my old travel photos to create a small travel log.  So that is why there is a new link on the menu saying travel log.  For this to really work I think I would have to reconsider both the layout of the page and the table information.  I would add a couple more categories and then I would need to call that more information.  All in all this took me about 4 hours, mostly because picking what photos to use and what to say about them slowed me up.

Assignment 9

I did the pager in class on the muffins and it took me all of 10 minutes to do the same on the travellog_list page to do it again.  I did stop to open and look at the pager page in the inc folder.  That looks like it will take some time to understand.  I am hoping to get to it soon.

Assignment 10

I did it in class that day that we went over it.  The only thing I did at home was to create a new developer sign-in and to create a link on the menu for the assignment.  I made the link assignment 10 because it just didn’t seem right to make a link admin.  But I was looking a Sandy’s site and she had the admin sign in right on the front page.  Maybe that is what I should do.

Assignment 11

I did it in class so the contact link is correct and uploads to the database.

 

I was starting the post for assignment six and saw I didn’t do a post for assignment five. It has been then two weeks since the posting for class. But there wasn’t really anything to post about for five. The assignment was completed in class and then I created the assignment link on the construction page.

Assignment 6 was fairly easy also, since we did most of it in class. There were two thing that took some time and thought; one was just deciding what to add for data and the other was getting the database built for the duplicate site. That it turns out was little more tricky since it is my second site hosted with dreamhost the steps were a little different from their wiki. I had already set up a wordpress site with their one step installation process. That takes the making, naming, and creating password for the database into automatic land. So when I tried to set up the new one for the linebackstudio site I couldn’t create a password. But I did find out where the automatic passwords are stored in the dreamhost web panel. And I got it all to work. We will see if it continues to work in the future. Oh, the other thing was it took me about a half hour to figure out that we were given the code to make the data in database appear on a web page and it get all the parts of data to correctly show up without an error message. Once I worked out the details on zephir it was then just making those same changes for the other site.

Well it is official I am spending more time on my C# class than anything else this quarter.   This last assignment is diving me to constant distraction.  It is to get the computer to pick a random number between 1 and 10. And then have a person guess the number with the computer giving higher or lower responses or ‘you have guessed the correct number.  I got it to do that but I can’t figure out how to get the program to keep receiving input if you pick an incorrect number.  Right now it just goes away once it tells you that you need to pick again.  I have tried to put what I did nested in a loop,  nested a new loop in the while loop I made. I have tried creating new variables and using variables that are already made.  I have also used the Console.ReadLine every where I can conceive of to no luck. Tell me can a return handle parameters?(my newest idea … have not tried it out yet) Yes to constant distraction.