I'm about ready to scream! In another class we have to create a quiz using forms. Okay, fine, I've done forms before. But it's different this time. Each question has to be on a different page, then we need to carry the variables from the first page to the last page. This requires scripting. Well, I've never used scripting other than HTML before. Well, I think I have the majority of it done. Well, make that the required parts of the assignment are done (as long as it all works when I upload everything!!!) But we're offered an extra 10 bonus points if we can figure out how to calculate the total percentage of correct answers. Me being the overachiever I am, has been searching for days to figure this part out. I've googled my brains out, surfed the web to the best of my ability and I'm coming up empty-handed. I have this HUGE FrontPage 2003 Inside Out book that isn't very helpful, but then again, I guess I'm dealing with scripting (like VisualBasic) rather than FrontPage itself. But I've looked in Programming in Visual Basic 6.0 without much luck as well. I'm the type of person who needs to see an example of what I need to type and I get it; I have a hard time teaching myself just exactly how to do anything. Oh well... I suppose I should quit blogging and get back to scripting! If anyone can offer advice I'd very much appreciate it!
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Friday, November 05, 2004
Booklets
Ok, so I feel I'm pretty proficient in Microsoft Word. I know the basics, plus a little beyond. But Wednesday I taught myself something new, using Help (and I wish I would've known this way back in May...). My boss wanted me to make a booklet of all the assistive technologies we have in the office, and a lot of the assistive technologies that are "out there". So I went and gathered the information and put it in Word. When I was finished I thought to myself there's gotta be an easier way to put this in a booklet form than when I did the program for my wedding (back in May).
A long, long time ago... sometime around the middle of May, I was working on typing up the program for my wedding, which included all of what the Priest said, and our responses, plus the readings, congregation responses and whatever else that is part of a Catholic Mass wedding. Well, this program ended up being 8 - 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of paper, or 16 pages when folded in booklet form. I looked around Word but I couldn't find anything that would do that automatically (unfortunately for me then, I didn't use help, or I tried but it didn't work...I don't remember which). So, if I wanted it to be nice, and in order (especially when I made copies) I figured I had to copy and paste the text where I would need it. Long story short, I don't remember how many hours I spent working on it. I finally had the layout right, so when it printed, and I put the pages back to back (since my printer would only print on one side) and folded it, the text flowed and was in the correct order!!! YAY!! That part was done! Making copies was yet another deal, keeping the order straight when putting the booklets together, but I regress.
So anyway, back to this booklet thing. If you click on File, Page Setup, around the middle of the box that pops up is a drop down menu where it says Multiple Pages. If you select Book fold, Word automatically makes the orientation Landscape, and sizes each "page" down to about 5 inches. When you play around with the Inside and Outside margins you can get your text where you want it. Word shows you the document in order. And when you print, Word is smart enough to change the pages around, so when you do put it in a booklet form and fold it, all the pages are in order. I was so happy to find this out, I shared it with some people in my office, and I taught them a new thing! Now, if I had only known how to do this six months ago, I may have been even less stressed with my wedding!
A long, long time ago... sometime around the middle of May, I was working on typing up the program for my wedding, which included all of what the Priest said, and our responses, plus the readings, congregation responses and whatever else that is part of a Catholic Mass wedding. Well, this program ended up being 8 - 8 1/2" x 11" sheets of paper, or 16 pages when folded in booklet form. I looked around Word but I couldn't find anything that would do that automatically (unfortunately for me then, I didn't use help, or I tried but it didn't work...I don't remember which). So, if I wanted it to be nice, and in order (especially when I made copies) I figured I had to copy and paste the text where I would need it. Long story short, I don't remember how many hours I spent working on it. I finally had the layout right, so when it printed, and I put the pages back to back (since my printer would only print on one side) and folded it, the text flowed and was in the correct order!!! YAY!! That part was done! Making copies was yet another deal, keeping the order straight when putting the booklets together, but I regress.
So anyway, back to this booklet thing. If you click on File, Page Setup, around the middle of the box that pops up is a drop down menu where it says Multiple Pages. If you select Book fold, Word automatically makes the orientation Landscape, and sizes each "page" down to about 5 inches. When you play around with the Inside and Outside margins you can get your text where you want it. Word shows you the document in order. And when you print, Word is smart enough to change the pages around, so when you do put it in a booklet form and fold it, all the pages are in order. I was so happy to find this out, I shared it with some people in my office, and I taught them a new thing! Now, if I had only known how to do this six months ago, I may have been even less stressed with my wedding!
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
FrontPage 2003
Microsoft FrontPage 2003 is considered a WYSIWYG web page editor (stands for What You See Is What You Get). It was fairly new to me because the web pages i have created in the past were by a site's (like Angelfire) editor, or by writing out the HTML codes myself. I learned the HTML language in high school, and as tedious as it is, I enjoy writing the coding for web pages. But FrontPage makes things easier. (There are also other WYSIWYG editors out there, but I have never used them before).
FrontPage 2003 allows you to create your web page by formatting it like you would, say a Word document. If you wanted to increase the font, or change the font, it basically only requires a click of the mouse. FrontPage works in a similar way. If you want a graphic as your heading, you import the graphic as a picture and you place it where you want to (left justified, center, or right justified). If you want a background color, pattern, or picture you tell FrontPage what you want and you see it. Unlike if you were to type out the codes, you would see a tag such as *BODY BGCOLOR="#000000"* which tells the browser to load the color black as the background color. Now, since standard font color is black, you'll also need a font color tag to change the color of the font. You can see how complicated something like this can get, if you don't know the color codes or miss a tag here or there. FrontPages elimates this hassle and makes it easy for you to select the text that you want to change colors. Another example is say you want to put a table on your page. If you were to write out the codes, you would need your table tag, then inside the table tag you need the table row tag, then for the number of columns you want you need a table data tag for each column within each table row. It would look something like this (but substitute <> for the *):
*TABLE*
*TR*
*TD*First column of first row*/TD*
*TD*Second column of first row*/TD*
*TD*Third column of first row*/TD*
*/TR*
*TR*
*TD*First column of second row*/TD*
*TD*Second column of second row*/TD*
*TD*Third column of second row*/TD*
*/TR*
*/TABLE*
(The * were used because Blogger wanted to read my HTML tags and put them in place... and I wanted to show the coding so I had to improvise.)
In the above example, I would have two rows with three columns each. And if I wanted to add color to those, I would have to have additional tags in each of thetags. So you can see how time consuming writing out HTML can be, and why having a program like Microsoft FrontPage 2003 is a good thing.
FrontPage also offers pre-made buttons that can be used on web pages. This is one feature that comes with the program that allows a novice user to create a professional looking web page without much effort.
FrontPage 2003 allows you to create your web page by formatting it like you would, say a Word document. If you wanted to increase the font, or change the font, it basically only requires a click of the mouse. FrontPage works in a similar way. If you want a graphic as your heading, you import the graphic as a picture and you place it where you want to (left justified, center, or right justified). If you want a background color, pattern, or picture you tell FrontPage what you want and you see it. Unlike if you were to type out the codes, you would see a tag such as *BODY BGCOLOR="#000000"* which tells the browser to load the color black as the background color. Now, since standard font color is black, you'll also need a font color tag to change the color of the font. You can see how complicated something like this can get, if you don't know the color codes or miss a tag here or there. FrontPages elimates this hassle and makes it easy for you to select the text that you want to change colors. Another example is say you want to put a table on your page. If you were to write out the codes, you would need your table tag, then inside the table tag you need the table row tag, then for the number of columns you want you need a table data tag for each column within each table row. It would look something like this (but substitute <> for the *):
*TABLE*
*TR*
*TD*First column of first row*/TD*
*TD*Second column of first row*/TD*
*TD*Third column of first row*/TD*
*/TR*
*TR*
*TD*First column of second row*/TD*
*TD*Second column of second row*/TD*
*TD*Third column of second row*/TD*
*/TR*
*/TABLE*
(The * were used because Blogger wanted to read my HTML tags and put them in place... and I wanted to show the coding so I had to improvise.)
In the above example, I would have two rows with three columns each. And if I wanted to add color to those, I would have to have additional tags in each of the
FrontPage also offers pre-made buttons that can be used on web pages. This is one feature that comes with the program that allows a novice user to create a professional looking web page without much effort.
Monday, November 01, 2004
PhotoFiltre
PhotoFiltre is a free download that I found using Alvin's links. I've used it a few times, and for freeware, it's not a bad program. It has many features, more than some free trials provide. It was easy to use, nothing too hard that would require a thousand page manual to figure out. For the average person looking for a cheap or free program to create graphic art, I would recommend it. It is up there with Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
You can read the review for PhotoFiltre http://www.webattack.com/get/photofiltre.html of course, as I said before, I used Alvin's resources to find that.
You can read the review for PhotoFiltre http://www.webattack.com/get/photofiltre.html of course, as I said before, I used Alvin's resources to find that.
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