We have started work on project 3 – a group project. I really loathe group projects. It’s been my experience with academic group projects that work is distributed unevenly. Of course I understand that this is not an unique experience – it is likely human-nature to believe that I DID MORE then anyone else in the group. As a grad student I’ve found myself in some pretty dysfunctional groups, however, this time I believe that I’m finally part of a wonder group.
Our project is to design a ice cream shop’s website. Since this is a ‘web 2.0′ project our site will contain a blog for visitors to discuss how wonderful the shop is, the ability to book parties and order ice cream and toppings. We quickly agreed on page topics and an overall page design. So far, my duties are to design and create the forms necessary to book parties, order ice cream and vote for the next special flavor.
As life tends to be two-steps forward followed by one-step back, so is my course work. Thanksgiving Day after shoveling snow, eating turkey and fixing dad’s computer ‘Dawgs of the ‘hood’ held is premiere familial viewing. In my family, silence speaks volumes. So I’ll take their overall silence as a sign that it didn’t suck big time. During the ‘showing’ I realized that the pug page wasn’t loading properly. The only thing visible was the background brick ‘hood’ image. So after downloading and installing ‘Putty’ I discovered that my attempt to clean up a stray CSS inline font styling was not fully executed. I left behind the opening comment string thus commenting out the whole page! As often heard on ‘Hee Haw’, “if it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all!”. It’s been fixed but 2 days late.
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