website

Please visit my personal site at http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~hbui
First of all, making a site was ways much easier than what I thought it should be. When we first learnt about hand-coding in Notepad, I thought that we would have to hand-code every single detail of our personal site (the idea would be ridiculous) and remember every code of adding links, adding pictures or tables. However, thanks to Expression Web, things have become much easier. Only one thing I got trouble with Expression Web is the initial difficulty to open my site with this software. I thought I continually clicked Open while I was supposed to click "Open Site" and that explains why I didnot get what my classmates had on their screens.

The page that I mostly proud of is my default. I spent so much time on just choosing the background because I know that most people will just look at my homepage to see if there is anything interesting. If it is not able to capture people's attention, it is no point building other pages. At first, I decided to use the orange and yellow dot background, which seems more harmonious with texts and pictures. I also experimented with other banal backgrounds, another which is similar to the dot and the other with retro decorations. All of them were nice to some extent, but too banal to attract attention. Finally, I changed my mind to use the black one with the letter/symbol I myself cannot define it just with the hope that my site can become more attractive. I was also proud of my Nav-bar though I know that it doesnot look the way it is supposed to be. But I am happy with my picture and my decision to change the hue/saturation to make the pictures look less weird.

My biggest technical problem is to navigate among a huge number of pictures I stored in the image folder. I didnot know that once I moved the picture from one folder to another, it would not show up in the published page. As a result, all of my pictures in places disappeared when I moved them into a sub-folder inside images. I was totally freaked out but luckily calm enough to figure what was wrong with my page. I also had problems with the way I put images in the table. When I saw all my images in Expression Web, they looked nice and neat with one next to another. However, when I published my site, they spread out all over the place and made me so annoyed. As a result, I tried to increase the pixel of the table and it worked. Super nice!!!

I will show my site to my sister and my friends, who were continuously keeping complaining about my bad computer skill. They should know how my IT skill has improved since I got to Trinity. Besides the page, they also could have a look at what I have been doing in IT class so far as I already put all my CSCI products into the Computer Science's Work page. They should know how I worked with superb Excel table, changed the texture of images and made them look more professional as well as my postcard with the help of Adobe Photoshop.

And lastly, just wanna say MY PAGE IS AWESOME :X and I definitely will create others for other classes.