10/14/13 - 10/18/12 Bellringers

10/14/13

"So our first entry is our positive and our negative, our good and our bad...[anyways we're writing about what happened over our weekends.]"

Well you see.

I was

I was at home on

Friday

and


Well not the whole Friday because I was partially at school.

And we dragged my sister to the football game.

And then on Saturday I resurrected the Ming Dynasty and took over the world.

You'd better get used to what the Ming flag looks like because it's going to be everywhere.

Then on Sunday I went to church.

And then I went to the fireside at 6:00.

And then I ate food.

And then I slept but this closes off at 12:00 Sunday night so--













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SO---------

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GOODNESS

SO-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


I guess I have to cheat.

So I woke up at 5:00 on Monday.

And now I am at school and it is 8:57 AM MST.

10/15/13

I did http://www.scouting.org/, just like the other 3/4 of the class who did as well.


So you see here, the scouting emblem is particularly prevalent on this webpage.

At the head of the page are links designed to provide an appropriate experience for different age groups and demotypes.

There is also a nice blue and white gradient border.


However I think that perhaps the middle of the screen, which is not background, would look better if it cast a shadow and looked like it was standing above the background.

Yeah. Definitely.


10/16/13

My last page closed out.

10/17/13

"No bellwork, straight to work"

source

10/07/13 - 10/11/13 Bellringers

10/07/13

The prompt is this:

Tell me one good thing and one bad thing that happened over the weekend.

end quote.


haha
get it
haaaaaaaaa



Okay one good thing that happened over the weekend was I got to watch General Conference.

And one bad thing was that Obama was not impeached.

Darn.


Maybe next weekend!!!




Does that satisfy the prompt?
It should.
But it doesn't satisfy the entire two-minutes-of-constant-typing-thing-even-though-that's-almost-impossible-and-oh-my-gosh-I-pressed-one-of-the-monitor's-buttons-and-now-it's-asking-me-if-I-want-to-change-the-brightness-aghhhhhhhhhhhhh



aegriaeyrgiarh


10/08/13

List of Missing Assignments

1. Project 1: Don't Drive Stupid

List Redo Assign[ments]

1. Project 1: Don't Drive Stupid

List all Missing Bellwork:

Bellwork up to date.

When I'm Going to Work on These:

When I can.


10/09/13

http://www.thomassmonson.org/

My assignment was to find the website of a celebrity.
This counts.

So it's a very nice grey.

I mean it has a bunch of black and white photographs so the grey goes along well.

There's even a slideshow.
That's pretty dang fancy.

But you have to click the slideshow before it starts playing.

Oh and it's very informative too.


"Go ahead and wrap up your observations"



And then we've got Part 2, which is posting interesting and cool things people have done with Photoshop.

10/10/13

So what we did was we researched these things called Bed and Breakfasts.

Maybe every motel is a Bed and Breakfast and they just call it by that weird name in a weird part of the American world.

Except I shouldn't say American world because it seems a large portion of the demotype that comes here is made up of tourists.

So anyways here are the two websites I used:

http://www.booking.com/hotel/us/wayside-motor-inn.en-us.html?aid=342443;label=city-monticello-utah-a_GgYalpy15rtT5YsmbVtAS21454683110%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap1t1%3Aneg;sid=104389f610c99ca3217440579734489c;dcid=1;srfid=a5c82d94da483cf051acd03e710310c7505ab3b8X3#hash-blockdisplay4

http://translate.google.com/

and

yeah

and I learned about it.

9/30/13 - 10/06/13 Bellringers

9/30/13

What

Three minutes

This is rigged

Okay

"just type, type, type"

Unfortunately in this case quantity will probably lead to a decrease in quality.

BUT TYPE TYPE TYPE

SO

HANG ON

I'M GOING TO SING YOU ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGSdfhafhadfgacgaer

I'm trying to find that.

Hang on.

It's a very illustrious poem.

I think I have typed enough to take a time long enough to go check on Wikipedia and find the lyrics.

Never mind.

Yeah.

Okay.

One good thing that happened during my weekend was that my dog did not die.

And, um..

ha

ha

ha

ha

One bad thing about the weekend is that it's over.

SHEHUI ZHUYI HAO, SHEHUI ZHUYI HAO

SHEHUI ZHUYI GUOJIA RENMIN DIWEI GAO

FANDONGPAI BEI DADAO, DIGUO ZHUYI --

YOU RIGHTIST


Unfortunately my eyes are now closed and I cannot see everything.
I think I just made two or three mistakes. I might have made a mistake ypign "three" ansd another typing "typing" and another typing "another" butb whatever.

I can't see the lyrics fo Shuio huyi Hao a

Right

As I nwas saying before I was interrupted
Hang on.
Let me try typign taht sentence again.

Um.
What was it?

\..


anyways!!!!!!

I cannot finish typing Shehui Zhuyi Hao because I can't see the screena nyumore.
And this is really bad

10/01/13

List of Five Things That Must be Done

un. Finish Page One Content
  i. Get buttons in right places; finish other pages to make pictures to make buttons out of for this page
deux. Finish Page Two Template
  i. It's supposed to look like my blueprints..
trois. Finish Page Three Template
  i. ...my blueprints..
       I wonder where those are.
quatre. Finish Page Four Template
  i. The blueprints are in my binder.
cinq. Finish the Rest of Content
  i. This includes but is not limited to a lot of research.


10/02/13

"Everyone was here so no bellwork"

This message brought to you by Mr. Ludwig.

Complemented by hopefully every other blog of this class.

09/23/13 - 09/27/09 Bellringers

09/23/13

I got to go to Church on Sunday, that's always fun.

My weekend was the same as most of my other weekends.

Is that a bad thing?




One minute is an incredibly long time.
I think you should actually just give us a minute to write an answer.







Question 2: Where did I see good design over the weekend?

South Chapel has really nice design, if you must know.



Yeah.
The design is really nice.
So.
So it's good design.


09/24/13

Okay.

So today I read http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/24/2003572883/1.

Basically it reports about a writer for a newspaper whose paper wasn't published on the seventeenth. The article he wrote was about Wang Jin-pyng (I believe), who he says is being scapegoated for the Ma administration's incompetence. Wang Jin-pyng was formally KMT until recently when Ma Ying-jeou, being Chairman, removed that status. Not having a political party removed his ability to be a lawmaker so Wang is now no longer a lawmaker. The trial involved accusations that Wang had accepted I think it was a $200,000 USD bribe from DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) to act in their favor (this being based on Wang' opposition to the FTA).

The article says Ma has brought a period of soft-"White Terror."

9/25/13

I read about two things.

The first was a free dog-sitting app. Anybody can register to become a dog-sitter; the app facilitates this so that people can go on their app to find local dog-sitters. The average rate for a dog-sitter is 40% less than that of a typical dog kennel.

also

I read about a possibly new mud island caused by earthquakes or landslides in Pakistan.

Locals say that it is actually not new, that it surfaced before and then sank again in a year.


09/26/13

http://www.cleanvideosearch.com/media/action/yt/watch?v=NdZiBzR4Ei8

09/27/13

• In 2011, 3,331 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 3,267 in 2010. An additional, 387,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, compared to 416,000 injured in 2010.
• 10% of injury crashes in 2011 were reported as distraction-affected crashes.
• As of December 2012, 171.3 billion text messages were sent in the US (includes PR, the Territories, and Guam) every month.(CTIA)
• 11% of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crash. This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted.
• For drivers 15-19 years old involved in fatal crashes, 21 percent of the distracted drivers were distracted by the use of cell phones (NHTSA)
• At any given daylight moment across America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving, a number that has held steady since 2010. (NOPUS)

The sources get even less reliable so I omitted those.

Maaaaaan.

Look at all those government references.

Let me tell you something about life.

If it comes from Obama, it's crap.

Website Critique Definitions

taipeitimes.com

Visual Hierarchy:

Unity/Consistency: A unified or consistent website is a website that follows all the design rules it sets for itself the entire time.

Grid/Layout: This basically determines how much of what you do is contributed to x and how much to y.

Navigation: I suppose this would be the order of events one has to take to get somewhere on a webpage. Navigation should typically direct most easily to the most-trafficked page.

Typography: This is basically which font you choose to apply to your text and I think that anybody with a brain (including you) should know why that is important.
Audience: This is your viewer base. Your website should appeal to this or your desired viewer base.

Color: Typically this is the color palette you use on your website.

Content: Details and everything inside.

Graphics: Pictures, visual detail, et cetera, blah blah

Overall Effectiveness: This is just a bunch of words trying to describe if or if not the visual schemes one is using on his website are going well together.

Experimental Post

This is basically a nuclear testing facility.


Somewhere in Algeria.

Or on a Pacific island.

WARM COLORS VS COOL COLORS

Red ->

Oh yeah before I begin my only source is http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/01/28/color-theory-for-designers-part-1-the-meaning-of-color/ because this is basically all that's about.

SO

Red -> Indicates prosperity in China, Communism; references danger, can be construed to portray blood, also associated with fire, action and warfare.

Orange -> Described as a calmer derivative of red (or anyways concerning its emotion-evoking properties) which is (obviously) more closely associated with fire but, when muted, is representative of -- oh let's see -- "...health and vitality...earth and with autumn." Fascinating!1111

Yellow -> According to this webpage it's associated with hope, happiness, cowardice and courage (yeah), mourning and mercantilism.
Obviously these are in different cultures.

By the way Yellow is the only good color and all the others are there to make sure there's not too much of a good thing.

Oh I didn't get that from the website though.

Blue -> OH MY GOSH NO I'M NOT EVEN DONE

FALSE ALARM

OKAY 

BLUE -> IS A COLOR
THAT
THAT

I'm all better now.
Blue is a light-mixing primary color (a list of these being red, yellow, and blue) and also a pigmentary primary color on the RGB mixing format (Red, Green, Blue) for computers or.. something..

...

Something like that.

There are probably three thousand (out of 7.108 billion) people who really know for sure.


"...often associated with sadness in the English language [and we don't know why we're putting this here because words aren't colors]...also used extensively to represent calmness and responsibility. Light blues can be refreshing and friendly. Dark blues are more strong and reliable. [And there's a lot more you won't care about.]"

Well, isn't that nice?


Green -> Seriously? The article doesn't say ANYTHING about Islam.

Okay I'll do it for them.

Dark greens represent Islamism. And it represents grass.

Purple -> They're right, purple really was long associated with royalty. I believe the Roman word for purple actually references royalty -- something to do with the purple color of a baby prince's wrapping or.. anyways, so was green and they didn't mention it in green. I think they left pretty much everything out of there.


Well! Pretty sure that's all!

Web Design Blog Bell Work

8/28/13

I am assuming "your journal entry" is self-explanatory and does not involve anything else.
By the way that counts as one of my sentences.
And that too.

So yeah.


alright change of plans

HTML is a coding language.
Color Theory is a sort of standard artists can use to try and determine what and which colors go well together.

8/29/13

This assignment has been saved within the nexus of the Universe which is very secure and you will never get to it unless you ask.

As in "Please."

8/30/13

8/23/13

Three Minutes of Heaven

Unfortunately this assignment was stolen by a dragon.

You will have to invade its hoard to get it back.


More unfortunately, you can't because you will die.

9/03/13

Wait what?
What are we supposed to be typing about?
I'm too dang confused.
Agh.
Agh.
I still have nothing to type about either.
Because you see the method here is to act like I am actually doing something and that is probably what everyone else is doing and what they're supposed to be doing.

GOSH DANG IT THE MUSIC IS BACK ON
WHY DO PEOPLE LISTEN TO MUSIC

ESPECIALLY THIS MUSIC
GAH


Okay.
I'm still typing.

I wonder how many times I'm going to say that this year.
I am guessing one.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
Eleven.
Twelve.
Thirteen.
Fourteen.
Fifteen.
Sixteen.
Seventeen.
Eighteen.
Nineteen.
Twenty.
Twenty-one.
Twenty-two.
Twenty-three.
My poor fingers have no idea how to reach these keys.

But that's because fingers don't have ideas.
Twenty-four.
Twenty-five.
Twenty-six.
Twenty-seven.
Twenty-eight.
Twenty-nine.
Twenty-ten ;)
Twenty-eleven
Thirty-two
Thirty-three
Thirty-four
Thirty-five
Thirty-six
Thirty-seven
Thirty-eight
Thirty-nine
Forty
Forty-one
Forty-two
Forty-three
Forty-four
Forty-five
Forty-six
Forty-seven
Forty-eight
Forty-nine


9/04/13


There's still nothing to wtrite about these objectives?!?!?!
!


?!?!?!?!?
!

Do you think I'm some kind of mystic?

"Queue"

"[Box]"

"[Arrows pointing in three different directions]"

Wow fascinating is THAT what I'm supposed to write about?


Anyways.
Today I thought I'd talk about elephants
I don't really know much about elephan--

WAIT

OKAY

Did you know that elephants flap their ears to maintain their body temperature?

When they get too hot, blood flows up veins in their ears.
Flapping these ears (which I imagine is easier with all that blood) gets the air to cool them off.
I think that's pretty cool.

What the heck are Indian elephants, anyways?

And did you know African elephants are the largest elephants?


But I'm actually not sure which is more closely related to mammoths.


And I realize it might be that obvious.


And um.

I don't like this music really.

That's a nice tidbit.
I still haven't really typed about anything.

"Wrap up your sentence."


Gahhh
I hardly got three seconds.
I now have a several-second setback.

Actually I'm just going to use this moment to type 9/04.

9/04/13

OKAY

WHAT THE HECK IS THE SUBJECT TODAY
AND NO, I DON'T LIKE THE MUSIC WHILST TYPING



FLOW CHART IS NO OBJECTIVE


HOWEVER I DO LIKE USING CAPS LOCK
IT'S REALLY ADDICTIVE

AND
YEAH

UM


HEY GUESS WHAT

UM



DID YOU
HEAR
ABOUT







SONAR












BECAUSE I DIDN'T


and


it's 8:53
and
the Pope is Catholic and the Queen a Brit

and she really has no power over Canada





and

it's 8:54

and

I think this song is telling me what to type.
But I am just going to ignore it because I am heavily prejudiced against songs while I am typing.



blahblahblahblahblah
"-song


OH
DID YOU KNOW THE SONG DYNASTY INVENTED STEAMBOATS FIRST!?
LEARNED IT ON THE INTERNET!~?!?!?
hmhmhmhmheeheheheahahahahahahahaha

8/

I mean
9/9/13

Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait

Okay
So I'm supposed to write a critique on the Canyonlands National Parks Service webpage.

Okay.
Wow.
Those rocks sure look brown.







\













Yeah.




Oh look I think that's--

Never mind.
It was a rock.
Hey, there are some rocks in the background!
Can you see them?

I bet they look like rocks in real life too.
With
uh
with

...
this song is clapping.

It's not a song, then.
It's some sort of ritualistic cultist chant.

Help me.

I am being sacrificed to the cultists!!!




Oh somebody got rid of the cultists and started singing in their place.
Or maybe it was just a rival band of cultists.
I hope these guys don't do human sacrifices at least.



No, I think they do human sacrifices.














The rocks are still there.
Good rocks.

They're not even rocks they're just pixels construed to portray rocks.

Too bad, isn't it?






I wonder how much a--

WHY DOES ANYBODY LISTEN TO THIS MUSIC!?!?!?




Oh my.
Time's up.
Gee that's funny.
I'm still typing too I wonder why that is.

Today it is the eleventh of September
It is also 9/11
and
this is my 9/11 bellringer


Today we are talking about rocks.


...





I wonder how far I could stretch this page by abusing the space bar more than I already have.

















































































































ANYWAY

IT'S A VERY LOVELY WEBSITE THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE MAKING SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO IMPROVE


I THINK THERE SHOULD BE MORE BOATS THOUGH

BUT
THERE FIRST NEEDS TO BE WATER
SO I THINK THERE SHOULD BE MORE WATER AND MORE BOATS


9/12/13

"And this is today's assignment."

Theoretically, good design looks however the dang heck I want it to.
Semantically, good design looks however the dang heck I want it to.
Hypothetically, good design looks however the dang heck I want it to.

Practically, good design looks however the dang heck I want it to.
The way it has been described is adherence to current fashion trends.
In my very bedroom?!?!?!
Now that's just plain silly.
Silly silly silly.

That is why good design looks however the dang heck I want it to.










These last a really long time.
By this point you should know that I am talking about the Bellringer.
THIS
KEYBOARD
IS
TERRIBLE


GOSH
I'M THINKING ABOUT STEALING THE COMPUTER'S KEYBOARD NEIGHBORING MINE TO THE LEFT


"Thirty more seconds!!"


































































































































































































































































































































































































































This has been a long thirty seconds.




























































































































































Oh hi.
It's now the thirteenth of September.



And right now I'm going to find me a Website to do something or other but I believe the general gist of this is to list two things I like about it --
GOSH I HATE THIS KEYBOARD

THE KEYBOARDS IN THE LIBRARY ARE THE BEST KEYBOARDS IN THE WORLD BUT THESE
UGH

-- and two things I don't.


oh goody I found one in the massive and uninhabited void that is the World Wide Web

http://www.wikipedia.org/



Now as you can see there is a w in the URL.
Following it is another w or an i depending on how you want to look at it.
Now you can go to either another w, a previously mentioned w, another w that isn't the same w as the w I'm referencing in the prior clause and a k.

At the end of all that is a /.

And then when you click on it it turns purple because as we all know the color purple is only there to make sure that there's not too much of a good thing.


That had better not be Cantonese.


I don't think it's Mandarin though.

9/16


One good thing that happened during my weekend was that on Sunday I slept in until 9:15.

Actually that's really not usually a good thing.

And one bad thing I guess is that I slept in until 9:15.


How much do I have to type?
"Until I tell you to stop"

09/19

A.D.D.I.E is an acronym which stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation.

It applies to web design because these are five generic steps to follow in the testing process.








Yeah.




So you see, it's relevant because those five generic steps are very typical to this sort of work and..

and..

And it's really important to follow.

09/19/2013

So I have just read that a lot of cars get in car accidents when car accidents occur and that when car accidents occur a lot of drivers are hurt when drivers are in car accidents and also a sustained number of passengers are also hurt when a sustained number of passengers are in car accidents and suffer injuries and a similar thing applies to drivers and glass is very sharp and if you hit another car it is really bad because glass breaks and since it is very sharp and very fragile it will easily hurt people in car accidents which causes damage to one's health which is really bad and that is why a lot of car drivers are hurt when they are in car accidents and also car passengers in car accidents.

Whatever You Want

This is such a mess.

WWW - World Wide Web

Browser - Program by which somebody on the Internet goes to websites

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

URL - Universal Resource Locator (the address of a webpage)

Domain Name - "A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet."

.com/.gov - Suffix of a URL, generically used to reference the credentials of a website's company.

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language; used to modify fonts

Eeyup.

Search Engine - The genre under which fit Google, Bing, Yahoo and related indicia okay bye.

 again

Web Crawler - "A Web crawler is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler)

Blog - ...We...blogs.

Social Media - This would be a conduit for sharing news and related indicia.

     Netiquette - "The correct or acceptable way of communicating on the Internet."

This varies.


This is the link to my blog.

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