Spring Break

I'm so excited for spring break! In my four years here, I haven't been able to afford a fun trip but this year I put my foot down! We're driving to Miami tomorrow afternoon through the night to get to the port where we'll get on a cruise to the Western Caribbean!!!! I've never been on a cruise but I love the sun and the beach and traveling, so I don't think this trip could get any better! First, we'll stop in Cozumel, Mexico ...

and maybe we'll go scuba diving or snorkeling!

The next stop after a day at sea is to the Cayman Islands! I've wanted to go here since my parents went years ago and came back talking about how they swam with stingrays and played with turtles at the Turtle Farm. I'm really excited about it!

I mean, look how beautiful it is!!!! The water is soo clear!

On our last stop, we're going to Ocho Rios, Jamaica!!! Man, I'll be so ecstatic to say I've been to Jamaica! There's this gorgeous waterfall there called Dunn's River Falls, and we get to climb up it. That will be exciting -- everyone that's been there keeps talking about if I only get to do one thing while I'm there to do that one. I don't think this is a picture of the waterfall I'm talking about, but I'm sure there are many other gorgeous ones over there.

I can't wait to go and finally have a week to relax instead of stressing out about work, school and other things. There's too much going on in my life sometimes and I'm soo excited I finally get to have a week for ME! Yay!

I'll write all about it when I get back next week! :) BYE!

FAQ Section

For the FAQ section of my project, I'll be addressing some questions such as what the website is for, what people can expect to see in the site, what the history and purpose of the site is and other things about why I chose to write about this particular space and more about who I am. I'll outline what I'm going to write here:

What is this website for?
The website has been made for my English 303: Multimedia Writing class. However, I like to think it's also been a way of helping me learn how to do this stuff on my own. I enjoy figuring out all this foreign html writing and seeing the end result on the Internet. It's pretty rewarding. I will definitely keep making sites like these in the future, thanks to this English class.

What can people expect to see here?
This project is pretty much a tour of my house in Morgantown. I take you through each of the rooms in the house and explain in detail why some pieces of furniture or collectibles are important to me and where they came from. Also, people can expect to see a much more complex website than the first project where it was all text. This time, there will be images, backgrounds, animations, formatting and colors.

What is the history and purpose of this site?
I started the site for my English class, and it started as just a bunch of pages with text on it. It is slowly turning into a more complex website with many different features on it. The purpose is to give people a look into my little house in Morgantown and show them why it's important to me.

New project

I think I'll focus on adding some more reflective and narrative text to my project. However, I already have 14 pages from when I first did the project since there were so many rooms in my house to begin with. So, I won't need to add too much text to make the project 10 pages, since I'm already over that, too. But I think adding some other stories about certain things in my house - like a fun story about my mom since I have photos of her or a funny incident about the heaters breaking down again - will add a little color to visualizing the house.

Since I already have so many pages and so much text, I want to focus more on designing the website in terms of format and photographs. My goal is a clean, organized and fun tour of my house so I'm hoping to do that with good formatting.

If I added too much more text, viewers might get a little overwhelmed since I already have so much!

Hello

Hi! This is my new blog!

For my English 303 class, I'll be starting work on Project 3. I'll be using this blog mostly for that class and project. For my first project, I worked on a "my space" project describing my house in Morgantown. For the third project I'll be re-working that idea to make it look more exciting and I'll be adding on to the ideas I talked about in the beginning. I am really excited to add images to the project, because that way the viewers will get a better understanding of what objects I'm talking about in my house. Since I already had 14 pages on the first project, I probably won't need to elaborate on much more since I worked hard on that in the beginning.

I suppose some keywords I would use would be the names of my pages, such as bed, DVDs, kitchen, living room, bookshelf, mom, porch, table, heater, etc. I'll elaborate more with stories about my mom and maybe my favorite DVDs.

For the layout, I will definitely want to include images on most every page and have a clean set up so that it looks more like a real web page.

I'm looking forward to revamping the page!!