Prompts: Address these 3 prompts using 3 paragraphs

If you were a congressman or women, compose a law that would be reasonable concerning texting and driving.

Contrast and compare drinking and driving with texting and driving.

Design a plan that would reduce the use of texting while driving

Texting and Driving, It’s Impossible.

Teens are experts at texting, but they don’t pay attention to other things when they do. They can manage texting their friends in class and at dinner with out anybody noticing. Click it or tick it was a law passed that has saved many, many lives. This law makes people buckle up when driving or they will get fined. We all know that buckles do save lives. If we can help teens understand that texting kills, perhaps they will stop.

   Teens might feel like we are attacking them by banning texting while they are driving. No one should text while driving. We should ban every one from doing it. We need to lead by example. If parents and other adults don’t text while they are driving then teenagers could start understanding more. If this law is passed there must also be promotions to make people aware that it is there.

   Texting is a major distraction. When u look at a small screen all your focus goes from the rode to that. You can’t see what you are doing on the rode. This effects every one. It’s just like driving drunk. Driving drunk is considered driving while you are impaired. If you can’t focus on the rode because of your phone you are driving impaired. Drunk drivers also swerve all over the rode and miss things going on. Their sense are dulled. When texting all your senses aren’t on the rode and you could not see a car coming or forget to check something.

    A plan to stop texting and driving must be made. Things can be done and changed to help. There should be posters, commercials, pledges, apparel, etc. Teenagers love to have the newest hottest things out there. If we make this big and great it could prevent more deaths. Parents must step in. If they are in the car and know their child could text or might be tempted to text they should take the phone till the ride is over. This could get teens in the habit of not being able to txt when driving and when they are alone they wont need to. We also need to prevent texting before a person even gets their license. If they are in driving school The instructor should tell stories about people who have died. If the last text you ever received was, “wasup” Would you be upset that you had to die over it?

   Teens are experts at texting, but they don’t pay attention to other things when they do. There must be and end to the deaths that didn’t need to, and shouldn’t have

happened. So many have already died just because some one had to respond to, “lol” or “wazup.” The law to prevent all texting and driving should be passes nation wide. People need to know the dangers of typing on a small keypad. All that has to be done is a text BEFORE you start driving that says “ hey gtg driving ttyl” The receiver will understand. Driving fully alert with out distractions will lead to less street and high way deaths each year.

Planning a Website

I will be planning and making a website. My website will be on legos. My target audience is everyone. I will have at the least 6 buttons. Home, Local stores, About, What to do, New stuff, and Gallery. I plan on taking all my own photos. I also plan on using a video i will create of me building something. I have not decided what to build yet.

Each pages content will be different. For the home page there will be a brief over view of all the pages. on possible a map. The local stores page will have just that, Local store. It will have their location and contact info. About will have general information on legos. The creation and all the things they are for basically. What to do, will have things you can build and fun times you can have. There will also be the mention of lego land on this page. New stuff will be about All the cool new blocks they are making and the new designs there are. Gallery will contain all the pictures i use for the site and more.

Why Use CSS?

Here are 7 different resons why you should use CSS when creating a web page,

1) You don’t have to update everything on the page to change something.

2) It separates content from presentation making a simpler and cleaner coding.

3) The separation also creates shorter loading times.

4) You have much more control over all appearance. Such as text size, font, and color.

5) You have more control of your block level elements.

6) You can control placement of all your elements better.

7) You can set all your own margins.

Characteristics of a Good Website

 

What are the 3 main characteristics of a good website?

The three main characteristics of a good website are, content information, appealing, and usability.

What are 3 examples from each of the main characteristic?

3 Examples for content info are, original content, sections of information, and good information about the product.

3 Examples of an appealing website are, professional, good quality (pictures and info), and the correct color scheme.

3 Examples of a usable website are, easy to navigate, every one is apple to use it, and is loads fast.

 

Optimizing Images

There are three basic rules when adding pictures to your web page.

This first is that you should keep your dimensions small, crop your image. There may be unfilled space in an image that isn’t needed. You can cute that out to make the whole image smaller and look better.

The second is to use as few colors as possible. The fewer colors you use the faster it will load. You also have to save your image with the right palette. the color safe palette has about 216 colors. you don’t need all of those if you only have three colors.

The third rule is to put your pictures through an optimization program. There are lots of programs you can use to do this. Photoshop has a program called, “Save for Web Devices” that will show you how it will look and how big it will be. These programs will also help you to determine whether to save it as a jpg, gif, or png.

Principles of Design

When creating a web site you need balance.

Balance is relevant in everything. When looking at a picture you want things to look balanced. If there is a great big building on one side and nothing on the other you feel like its going to tip over. With websites you need to make sure that both sides are evened out.

You also need repitition.

Repetition is evident in almost all aspects of life. people tend to do their hair the same way or wear the same cloths. songs repeat the same limericks. Its also noticable in speech. If you listen to some one you’ll notices they say the same words over again or speak with a certain tune or tone.

Website Metaphor

The architectural metaphor that making a website is like building a house means that you have to plan out every little thing for each. With a house you have to plan how many rooms you want and what you want them to do. The blueprint is just the basic plan, its laying out all your pages(rooms) to show how you want them. When you plan out your website with a blueprint you are planing out all the ways the pages work. You are planing where the pages lead to and what they are used for.

Its important to use a blueprint to plan a website or a house so you know what you want, how it works, and where you want it. When you have a website map, you can use it to navigate or show your users how to get around. When you have a blueprint for a house you know what each room is for and where they are and how they open up.

If you are and information architect you can use the blueprint to build up your website and plan what goes in where and if it leads to anywhere. You can use the blue print when your a content manager to deiced what goes in each page, and what each page is suitable for. You deiced how big the page needs to be for everything to fit. A graphic designer would deiced what pictures would look good and what would make you want to stay on that page.