{Ethan survives many challenges and sails beyond Miðgarðr }
Ethan's Saga
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Excerpt from a fragment of Ethan’s Saga,
discovered in
"… beard grew long and the feasting hall silent. And so did he sail through many long-wearying trials to come to the throne of Óðinn. He who was Ethæn SoftHands; who slew Jack of the Box on the Isle of Misfit Toys and raided the sacred monastery at Cheddar."
I've finally finished my final project. There are probably a few things to change but for the most part I think it’s done. It was very challenging and I ran out of steam at the end. The things I learned from this project include:
- DreamWeaver 8 will not always preserve the formatting of a Word document. Your best option is to paste the text as “text with structure plus full formatting,” but sometimes that doesn’t even work right.
- Don’t decide to change the font of your project after you have already completed half of it. My project adoptee was very helpful and suggested I change the font from Times New Roman (TNR) to Ariel, preserving the TNR font for my document examples. I thought this was a good suggestion, but it became a real headache to implement because DreamWeaver 8 is buggy!
- Make backups. I lost everything I had done on my JavaScript navigation menu at one point when I accidentally saved it as the mainFrame and vice versa – and then continued steaming ahead without realizing what I had done. The whole code got so convoluted that I gave up and had to revert to a backup from several days past.
- Do not try and learn something new that involves a lot of non-related research. Before this class I had never published anything on the Internet. I had a lot to learn. The problem with my project was that it not only involved a lot of new skill acquisition but also a lot of content research which took away from the amount of time I could spend on the technological aspects of the project. If I could do this project over I would choose a light subject which required little research beyond the technological skills required to complete it.
- Don’t plan on finishing it over the Holidays. By the time the Thanksgiving week came around I had about 80% of the research done and 50% of it implemented. I was counting on finishing it over Thanksgiving. This turned out to be really hard as I had unexpected company and dropped my eye-glasses in the toilet, so things really got crunched at the end.
- Writing Disclaimers is fun. The best part of my project was disclaiming any responsibility for it, especially its hideous appearance.
