The Second Day, The Second Job

The 2nd Job March 26, 2014

Thursday was the second time working my my mentor. It's been a while since the last time I worked with him because he was out of the state with his family. Today, we are to work on a mock up site, which is basically a design of the actual website. I'm kind of excited because I actually looked at some websites to get some ideas. But before we did it, we went through some of the websites my mentor found interesting and cool. I though they were cool, too. He showed me some websites that has a gallery where they have the pictures of the animals which they are selling. Some of them actually have videos of pitbulls. But one that caught my attention was the one that has a homepage with a mean looking pitbull and a background music. It was so sick! Anyway, me and my mentor took some ideas from those websites. We started off sketching it on a paper. Then, we actually made a design on a computer. We used a software that my mentor already had. At first, it was hard but eventually I got how the software works. My mentor said he liked it. Though, I kind of didn't like how it turned out. Probably because it was my first time. It was actually frustrating after spending time on it and not liking it afterwards. Yet, my mentor helped me enhance it. He taught me things like where to put this and that. And I think it turned out pretty good. After all the frustrations, we took a break and ate some pasta cooked by his wife. It was irresistable! The strawberry juice somewhat refreshed my mind. Then we finalized the mock up site. Finally, after about 8 different designs, we had our mock up site done. I'm actually happy about how it turned out. I can't wait until this project is done. I just wish that we get the website done before the presentation so I could show it. Next up, we are going to get some pictures from my mentor's friend. And we are going to pick which to put for which. We are targeting to do it on friday or saturday depending on my mentor's availability. I just can't wait to see it!

Time logged for this session: 5 hrs
Total time loggied: 11 hrs

First Day Working with My Mentor

The First Day I Worked with My Mentor March 9, 2014

Last sunday, I actually started working with my mentor. I was kind of nervous but the fact that my mentor is my sister's friend somewhat took my nerves away. Although it was not the first time I met with him, I still found it hard to get along with him during the work. I even thought that he might get disappointed with me because I had no idea what I was going to do. But he was nice to consider that I was a beginner. So next time, I'm going to try to be more confident. Anyways, before we started working on the project, we talked about how we are going to meet and where. We didn't get clear enough about it but I don't think that it's going to be a problem since he's not being hard to meet with. We have decided to do a website on dogs. When he told me that it was going to be about dogs, the first thing that came into my mind was cute little puppies. (Although I'm kind of scared of dogs). He showed me some samples and ideas on how our website is going to look like. I found it interesting since we're doing it specifically on Pitbulls. I thought they're cool in pictures, but not in person. Good thing I only have to see them in pictures! Then, he gave me a brief explanation of how we are going to do it step-by-step. Honestly, I thought it was going to be hard, but he said he's going to be helping me most of the time so I wouldn't have to worry about it, which made me feel more confident. Then, lastly, we made a web design project plan, a chart where we put the target dates. I feel so pressured yet excited since this is really the job that I want to have in the future. In my next meeting with my mentor, I am to make a mock-up site for my website.

Time logged for this session: 6hrs

Total time logged: 6hrs