My Website!!!

Please visit my website at www.cs.trinity.edu/~ajalan
Initially it was a little complicated to understand how the hyperlink's worked for the nab bar but then with all of Dr. Belisle's help, it became easier. I thought it would be much harder to make a whole website but it was an easy and fun exercise. Initially I started with using Kompozer because you could use it on a mac but then I had to switch to Expression Web for all the hyperlinking. My favourite page of my website is the one on the Grey-Crowned Crane. I like the layout and colors of the page and am proud of it. I really like my website but I would have probably used better or custom made backgrounds. Even the layout could have been a little simpler. My biggest technical challenge was to understand the hyperlinking. Specially because I could just not do it with Kompozer and it worried me. My biggest design challenge was making the pictures, layout and background all coordinated. So that it would look all in sync. I would obviously show my website to my parents and family. Also, my friends at Trinity and high school friends. Even bird-lovers would be interested in my website. Yes, definitely. I would love to make another website for another class or for my own personal experience or something. This was a really fun and useful exercise and hopefully I will be able to make use of it some time later.

Larry Hechler's Visit

Larry was a guest lecturer in our class today. He works in the Hardware Department at Trinity. Also, he's been working in this field for the past 30 years.
He started with emphasising the importance of back-up specially for a college student. We should back-up almost every week. He gave us examples of how students at Trinity had lost either their complete photographic history or 200 hours of thesis work due to an accident and without a back-up everything is lost.
After he told us that the monitor or the touch pad of a computer must never be cleaned with alcohol, acetone or ammonia. They would ruin the finish on the screen and maybe make the LCD stop working.
Only a lint-free cloth with a dab of water must be used for cleaning purposes.
He pointed out that the laptop must not be kept directly on  the carpet or on the bed because it blocks the wind intake point. And the computer needs to take in air for cooling purposes.
For the battery's health and long life, he suggested to run down the battery to the warning level and then full charge it. This way the battery remembers that it has to work for the full amount.
He also explained the complete care packages of dell and apple.

His visit was really helpful for all of us.

Image Manipulation!

I chose this image of a tiger and lion and made them into one picture. Because I always believed that both are really royal and grand animals and there amalgamation would be the King of the Jungle.
Also, a bird serving the tigion food was also very amusing to me. And the food that the tigion is eating is also just a simple worm.
I adjusted the Color, Brightness and Gradient fill of all the layers.
Also used the eye-dropper tool and the magnetic lasso.
This was a really fun exercise.

Powerpoint Presentations

I am studying Economics and Marketing here at Trinity. Thus, I decided to make my presentation an amalgamation of both my majors. My presentation was a marketing technique for Economics Majors.
It talked about the importance of Economics and how it is essential in almost every field today.
Also, I included a video of the Economics Breakdown Song. We had watched this video in my Economics class and I thought that it would bring a good laugh to the audience.

All the other presentations were really good too. I really liked Danny's presentation style and her different ideas. She had a lot of audience interaction and everything in her presentation was very easy to relate with. Thus, she definitely was my favorite. All her animations and pictures were really interesting too.

Chris Nolan's Presentation

I really enjoyed his presentation. It was very informative and also interesting. He explained us how all the various search engines worked. Why Google has 66% of the market share wheras Yahoo, Bing etc. barely even get 10%. This is because of all the various types of algorithms and techniques google uses to give the best results as per everyone's needs. He also explained us how we can better use the "Advanced Search" option and narrow our search results. This has been very helpful.