e-Comm Reflection

• What did you learn?

I learned how to use the adobe suite, recognize good uses of graphic design, and be able to create my own digital art.

• How did you learn it?

Mrs. Lofquist teaching style consists of following basic tutorials and just jumping into a project head first without any instruction. Google is your biggest friend in this class and there is almost always a forum somewhere that can help you when you get stuck.

• Why is it important?

It is important to know how to learn on your own without any help because that is more like the real world. If you can take it upon yourself to learn the skills you can do well in graphic design, if not you might fall behind and be very confused about what is going on in the class.

• What are your greatest strengths/what are your weaknesses?

The think I'm the best at in Photoshop and Illustrator are the technical skills. I really enjoy learning the ins and outs of these two programs because they are so advanced and have so many uses.

• What are you going to do with what you have learned?

I will be able to make my own custom logos or whenever I need do make my own graphic I will be able to. I have to skills to make my own things instead of asking someone else to do it for me.

• Is there anything you would change? Why?

If I was able to change something in e-Comm currently it would be the grading system. The way grading was changed this year seems like a step backwards for the program. Instead of having the regular point grading system it pretty much transitioned back into a system used by elementary schools. The current system is way to subjective and doesn't accurately grade all the students. A non letter point system might be more like the real world but it isn't the best fit for a high-school academic setting. The regular grading system isn't perfect but it gives a more accurate representation of what you should be getting in the class instead of choosing a letter grade at the end of a semester.

The lack of instruction in this class leads to a huge waist of time. Projects that can be completed easily in a couple class periods are instead giving weeks to do the same amount of work. I don't know how these can be changed other than giving stritcter dead lines and less having the class run itself.

• Conclusion/Summary

I really did enjoy my time in e-Comm but it doesn't seem the right fit for me. I don't enjoy the teaching style very much and the grading system is the thing that pushed me over the edge.

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All about Colors

HTML Color

There are four different ways to use colors in CSS. You can use RGB, RGBA, Hexadecimal, and color names. They all have advantages some are easy to use than others, this tutorial will show you all the different types and situations to use them in. With RGB, RGBA, and Hex there are 16,777,216 different colors but you can only use 256 on the web.

Color words

Colors words are the easiest out of the four ways to add colors to word in HTML but they also do the least. To add colors words to tags you just add the name of the color you want. Color words are the least used way because they are very limited in the amount of colors you can use in your web page.

Ex.

<p style="color: Red;">Hello</p>

Hello

Links:

All the color words

Hexadecimal

The hex system for colors is base 16 and are 6 digits long(Hex meaning 6 in latin), and look like #FF0000. The system goes from 0-F Both RGB and Hex codes have the same amount of colors for the web. The order for hex codes go "RRGGBB" Red Green Blue. Each one of the values you be a character from 0-F. F being the most of one color and 0 being none of that color. Web colors are all hex codes that are doubled like #00FF33 or #55DD22 but like #12FC5A

Ex.

<p style="color: #FF0000;">Hello</p>

Hello

RGBA and RGB

RGB and RGBA are almost the same system they use different amounts of red green and blue. Each color goes from 0-255 (256 different numbers).The a on RGBA stands for alpha it is a value from .0-1 it is the transparency value.

Ex.

<p style="color: rgba(255,0,0,1);">Hello</p>

Hello

<p style="color: rgb(255,0,0);">Hello</p>

Hello

Here is a picture of how transparency can be used.

In Conclusion

All of the different types of color choices work in HTML 5 and they all have there different uses. You can refer to my other blogpost for examples of each type.

Links:
HTML Color Picker
HTML Colors