I ignored my alarm clock but I still convinced myself to get out of
bed before noon. So successful. Before lunch I managed to finish
the last page of the website. That brought the page count up to
twelve. I wasn't really keeping track as I went along, which is
probably a good thing because twelve is a little intimidating. But I
can say it certainly felt like I was making that many pages. I spent
so many freaking hours over the past week. But I'm done. Pretty
much anyway.
After lunch I tweaked a few things and then uploaded it to the school
server so I could see it online, which would also allow me to
validate the code and run accessibility tests. Those checks lead to
a few more tweaks, including getting rid of the email button on the
form I made because I couldn't get the PHP to work. Every time I
clicked on the button it would just show the PHP code instead of
running it. I might try to figure it out later but PHP is beyond the
scope of this class and I've got other things to worry about. The
only error I got in my HTML was the blank link that is used on each
page for the mobile menu icon. I'm not entirely sure how it works
but it is needed for the mobile menu to work, so I left it in. There
were also a bunch of warnings because my alternative text on images
is often the same as the title text. Oh well. Like the PHP thing, I
might worry about it later but not right now.
I sent the link off to my group so hopefully tomorrow I'll hear back
from them. And hopefully they like it because I spent a whole bunch
of time on it with no real input from them. We'll see.
Tonight was Chipotle night, a day late, but it still tasted good.
Afterward I showed my website, on the computer and on a phone, and
several YouTube videos. My mom also got in on the act and showed a
couple videos she had.
After dinner I could have maybe started on my grant project or
written in my reflective journal or worked on other school things but
I didn't. I took the night off. I needed a break. One where I
didn't feel so guilty that I couldn't relax a little. I waste so
much time not working and feeling so guilty about it that I don't get
anything else done either. Tonight I embraced the break. I didn't
really do anything fun but the breather was nice.
Tomorrow I'm working on my grant proposal. I believe I have to
present that next weekend. It isn't actually due until the end of
the semester, which I believe is the 8th or 9th
of August, but we have to have a poster presentation ready for our
next face-to-face meeting. The goal is to have it done this weekend
which will give me the week to get everything together for my poster.
Like buy a poster and make sure there is enough ink in my printer to
print off whatever I need to print. This sounds like a pretty good
plan right now. We'll see how I'm feeling about it on Sunday. I'm
just hoping I don't have to pick out a specific book for the program
I want a grant for. It would be nice (and I think easier) to keep it
general.
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