Wednesday, November 17, 2010

In the Midsts of the Project

So let me update you: We picked our website.  It was not the one I had originally thought because apparently someone in my group posted the wrong URL.  Our new site is the New England Flag Football Association (NEFFA) and let me tell you this site is in pretty rough shape.  Most of the links are dead and the site design was probably done by someone aged 5 and under.  Some of the pages have so many links that I swear I ended up in Narnia at one point, true story.  Our site also fits my criteria of having just enough information that we can copy and paste it to our new site.
We also chose to use Google sites.  I was not happy at first with this choice but after playing with it I realized that it was extremely easy use.  My group decided that we would all go home and create a site and then next class we would see which one looked the best and combine the best parts to make the Megazord of sites.  For those of you who don't know Megazord was the dinosaur that the original Power Rangers made with all of their vehicles.  Think of all our own sites as Jason's Tyrannosaurus, Billy's Triceratops, Trina's Saber-tooth Tiger and Zach's Mammoth and we put them together to make Megazord or the NEFFA website.  If that doesn't spell it out for you than I suggest you stop reading, look up the original Power Rangers and watch an episode, that should clear things up for you.  Anyway, we did this and we chose a football template.  I then made a better looking black and grey color scheme which was a hit with the group.  I then created a new email and web site that we all had access to.
I copied a header from the original site and put that at the top of our site.  With them template in place, the site was ready for a revamping.  So far everyone has done there part and the site looks very good.  There are pictures from the original site all over it as well as a photo gallery.  My part of the project was to make the free agent, rules and regulations and the archive sections.  The archive section was the most difficult to do because I had to figure out how to link pages to it.  I had originally just linked the three aspects of it, Players of the Week, MVP's, and Hall of Fame, to the original page and then I figured out how to create new pages in our website.  I then linked them to new pages and the links work seamlessly.
I am very proud of my own work on this so far because I am not usually the person to turn to with computer issues but I figured out how to use Google sites fairly well.  We have our peer review tomorrow so hopefully that will go off without a hitch and we won't have to change too much on our site.    

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