Thoreau’s A Week of Pain and Confusion….

When I started the Thoreau fragment assignment, I was not sure what or where my personal web page was located. I went to the discussion boards and found out I was supposed to use a server unixs.cis.pitt.edu. So I typed this into the URL and it came up an error page. I went back to the discussion board to figure out my issue. I did not really understand the directions that were given and I eventually had to go to the help desk to figure out my issues.
Once I was able to get onto the server, I thought it was actually kind of fun to create and view my own webpage. The next problem was trying to figure out what an early edition of Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. I worked on changing font size and family. Then I decided to change the background color. In the end, I was actually really happy with what I created. I also went back and added a link from my home page (www.pitt.edu/~anh55) to the Thoreau assignment. This way there are two ways of accessing my webpage. I liked trying out different fonts and other techniques on this webpage. It helped me to become more familiar with web design and the unixs server at Pitt. (Too bad I will never use it again, since I’m graduating in a few weeks!)
This assignment, though hard at the beginning gave me a better sense of how to create a webpage. I enjoyed playing around with the website and trying to see if I could create something that looked like an early edition of the work.
My only question for the hyperlink assignment is how are we supposed to save it. The first assignment was Thoreau_fragment_1.html and the directions for the second one say to save it as the same. Should we make it fragment 2 or what? Who knows? I guess that is just something to discuss in another post.