Let me start by saying that I have very minimal experience with any sort of coding. My involvement with the subject stopped during the time I had a Myspace. In any case this project took me a little bit of time.
I struggled with the very first steps as I could not get my TextEdit to change the title of my file from "test.html.txt"to make it compatible as a website. Every time I opened the website I was taken to a white screen with codes. I scoured the internet to fix this mishap, and it took me down a rabbit hole of other website makers having similar issues on MacBooks. I suddenly thought to my self "maybe this is a much more serious and complicated issue that is bigger than this project."
I called a classmate for help. He was fresh out of tech ideas. After troubleshooting for a long while I finally decided to ask Dr.Prins for help. She then told me to simply rename the file and remove the "txt" part of the name, and miraculously it worked!
I was frustrated, but relieved for me to say the least. I had no idea how simple the fix was, and I had taken most of my time trying figure out how to get the "txt" part out of my folder. However, I will say after the "minor" mishap it all began falling into place, and towards the end it was getting a little easier. Or easy in a way that I was finally understand what to do and where to paste certain things.
This experience has only emphasized how much I still struggle with technology after being online for months. This also highlighted the idea of digital literacy as I assumed prior to this that I was pretty tech savvy (I obviously am not).
There are *lots* of different ways of being tech savvy, just like there are lots of different ways of being literate: people who can breeze through critical theory or philosophy might struggle to make sense of a farm report, and some people who are really comfortable reading Shakespeare may not be able to make heads or tails of most discussions on Twitter.
ReplyDeletePeople who are savvy consumers of digital technologies may not be adept producers of them, until they've had plenty of time to practice.
Your webpage works nicely -- and Neptune is amazing!
My main suggestion for revision would be to shift from using the break tags to using paragraph tags, so that there is a line space between paragraphs.