Student Websites

Last class period, my classmates presented their websites. Although I was absent due to a tennis match, I have since looked at three sites that I found particularly impressive. The first website that I thought had the most original design and showed a lot of creativity was Hannah's. Her website was well organized and coordinated. The color themes she chose worked well for the pages, and they each had a unique design. Another website that I looked at was Jenny's. I liked Jenny's site for her overall unity of design. All the pages flowed together and had a consisten layout (the green background was constant as well). She had interesting topic of Ireland and included fun pages such as Things to Do and beautiful pictures of Ireland. The last website I will talk about is Taylor Hoyt's. It was clear that Taylor put a lot of work into his website. He had a link bar that was located on the side of the screen (uncommon among the sites I saw) and had many pages covering a vast array of topics such as his brothers, resume, and a story about his trip to Britain.

I really enjoyed looking at everyone's website and learning about them! You can visit my site by following this link: www.cs.trinity.edu/~jrunge

It's always great,

John
jrunge@trinity.edu

Take Two: Next Day of Slideshow Presentations

More people presented their slideshows in last class. Just as last time, there were many interesting and creative topics and designs. My two favorites from this class were Taylor Burden's and Ellen Desmarais.

Taylor's was really cool for several reasons. The first thing that caught my eye, or in this case my ear, was his use of music in his presentation. The song he chose was complementary to his topic, "D-Day", and reinforced the emotions involved in such an event. He also used slide and font techniques that helped add a specific tone to his presentation.

I was impressed with Ellen's because her interesting topic "The Science behind Attraction". It was a impressive step to take with the assignment and she handled it well. Her topic immediately engaged me because it was so original. Regarding design, I really enjoyed Ellen's use of romantic pictures and appropriate transitions between them and the slides.

These presentations easily rivaled those of my previous post, because they were creative and original!

John Runge
jrunge@trinity.edu