Well I've been watching the Weather Channel the past few days, hoping that any snow forecast for the northeast would not affect us. As of now (5:30 am), they're saying that a good sized storm will stay to our south-1'-2' for Washington and messy stuff north and south of them, but well to our south. Good!
If anything changes, I'll email you or call you. You have my cell if you need to call me. BTW As usual I'll be in the lab as close to 7:00 am on Saturday as I can, but I won't be looking for you till 8:30 am. However you're welcome to come in early if you need to get something done.
More to come...
Eric
During class, I'll be showing you some portable apps that may help you as you work on your project. I'll try to do this as I help individuals or pairs of people. I chose to do it this way since the group is small and some of you will not be interested in refraining from your research to watch something that wouldn't apply to your particular work. Having a small group and the time to spend with you in that way, is a luxury I appreciate.
A couple of you are exploring programs not of general interest to the group and we'll deal with those, but most of you will be using a Web authoring program called Nvu, a free portable and surprisingly robust application that will allow you to prepare your project for the Web. The second program some of you might use is Gimp, which is a graphics editing program. It's comparable to Paint Shop Pro and I could call it PhotoShop lite.
Nvu can be downloaded at http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/kompozer-tutorial-1.shtml
The newest version is called Kompozer, although for our needs it won't matter how it's been merged with Nvu. This tutorial site looks good and covers some of the basic Web protocols that we spoke of last week.
Gimp as a portable application can be downloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/GIMP%20Portable/GIMP%20Portable%202.6.8/GIMPPortable_2.6.8.paf.exe/download
There is a very elementary tutorial at http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/ which happens to address some of the basic ways we need to use Gimp-image modification.
Friday, February 5, 2010
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