Fourth Job

Fourth Job April 20, 2014

This is my fourth meeting with my mentor. It has been a while since the last time we worked. This sunday, we started off picking and sorting the pictures. It was pretty basic so my mentor let me do all the job for that day. He only helped me with renaming the pictures. We created folders and labeled them according to what page they are for. I put them all in one main folder which we named "assets". We chose the pictures and put them in their appropriate folders. We renamed all the pictures with the puppies' names. I didn't know that we had to rename all the pictures. But my mentor told me that by changing its names, the names of the pictures will show as you point the cursor on the pictures on the website. Anyway, it started to become frustrating because I mixed up all the names. I missed one name, so I had to go back to where I messed up and redo everything from there. It took me a little long because there were a lot of pictures. My mentor suggested me to stop every once in a while because he said that looking at the screen for too long can damage your eyes. He told me to look at something far every 30 minutes. After all the frustrations, it was worth it. My mentor's wife made us some frozen chocolate shake and sandwiches. The shake was so refreshing and relieving. In our next meeting, we are planning to make our own banner. We decided to download all the backgrounds and pictures that we can use to make a banner for our business site. He said that in our next meeting, he is going to teach me how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to make our banner. I wasn't expecting that we are going to edit some pictures, but he said that it's a part of being a web designer. It wasn't what he majored in, though. He said that he was also taught some of it put just the basics. I really want to learn how to do photoshop! I'm starting to imagine how I'm going to be like when I actually work as an IT. We didn't talk about when we are going to do the banner since his availability is not predictable because the company that he works for calls him whenever they need him. But since it's my spring break, he said he's going to try to work longer with me because he might leave for North Carolina for his job there. And it made me feel a little sad because he said that we might not be able to finish the website by the time of the presentation comes. I really hope that we get this done. But I think that we will still work on this after he comes back from North Carolina.

Time logged for this session: 6 hrs

Total time logged: 22 hrs