Website Template

I am going to use a template of a website for my own. I am now adding pictures and text. I am finishing adding the slide show soon as well. I am taking printscreens of the work, cropping them and then putting them on word document.

Making my Website

After much struggle creating the website on my own, I finally went to see a professional website maker, who sat down with me for many hours (many, many hours) and helped make my website with me. As I mentioned earlier, I did this website using the combination of the following
PHP as my scripting language. I also used Javascript for browser interaction like slideshow, HTML for presentation and Sqlite for database for data storage.
About: PHP & Sqlite
SQLite is a database used for storing the data (like comaping with xls). The advantage is I didn't need to create a html file for each content. Whenever I needed to add a new content, all I needed to do was to add a new row (like in xls) in the Sqlite database.
PHP is a scripting language which helps connecting to the database (SQLite) and output the html
Although I had researched Tutorials for Dreamweaver, I didn't end up using any such software (because the professional told me it is for beginners) but I wrote all codes in the text editor (like notepad) I have used PHP & Sqlite to make sure your website is easily maintainable even for the next several years. If I had not used these, my website would be much less interactive (as in, if I used independant html files). Creating individual html pages for each content is very time consuming with so many dis-advantages. For the slide show, I used a 3rd party javascript plugin to generate the slideshow - http://caroufredsel.frebsite.nl/

Technical Skills

Today, after two weeks of working on Dreamweaver, I discovered I had to show all of my working on Dreamweaver by using Jing to capture videos and photos. Since I am almost done, I cannot believe this, and do not know how I shall manage to recreate all of the things I have done so that I may video them.

PHP

Because there are so many dynamic elements required in my website (the calendar, keyword search) it would be much faster for me to use a scripting language called PHP along with HTML and CSS, instead of just HTML. So instead of designing several independant html pages for each event day, we will just build one page to which we can pass the date and the script will dynamically change the result-set of the page. Since I do not have to do a line by line code, it will be faster for me to do it using PHP.

Fireworks vs. Photoshop

03.10.11
Mr. Brown helped me discover that Fireworks was not the best option for editing pictures, advising instead, to use Photoshop as a better alternative. He also helped me decide how I was going to crop my picture, instead of complicating everything by attempting to edit the pixels of the photos.