busy, busy, busy!

I have been SO busy lately! At least, its been a good busy for the most part.
Saturday, I had work from 8-1. But, I did get to ride three horses during that time, and two of them were good, so it was a good morning. I grabbed lunch at Subway and headed up to another barn in Las Colinas. I was riding a horse for my friend while she recovered from a small surgery. Winston is a huge horse-- 17.2 hh, which is over 6 feet tall at the top of his shoulder (withers). But, he's super fun to ride. Then I was supposed to babysit from 5-10, but when I rang their door bell, the dad told me that actually they didn't need a babysitter. I would've been nice if they could have called me before I went over there. So, instead I stayed home and had a House marathon. Not a bad night.
Sunday, I went to a 8:30 service at my church, hurried home and changed clothes, went to my barn and rode Michi, got a Coke from Sonic (caffine needed, as I woke up at 3 am), and drove up north to ride Winston again. Both horses were good and the weather was great, so it was nice.
I stopped by Panera to pick up lunch on the way home. Then, I picked up my Dad and we went to look at a horse trailer in Rockwall. I liked it, but because my parents are buying they get the final say, haha! Finally, I headed home.

Phew, what a weekend. Busy, yes?

And this next weekend I have a horseshow in Weatherford at Greenwood Farm--it's my favorite show in Area V, so I'm really excited! I also figured out that I won't have an open weekend, or even day, until May 30th. I've just gotta make it through this homestrech to Summer......

project

I decided on a client for my website project: the SWADE club at ESD.
Everything's still in the planning phase, but updates to come.

CSS Thoughts

In website design we are working with CSS coding instead of HTML now. Its cool that you can see the code and the design at the same time. And, it is easier that you can have a template for a bunch of pages. It is still a bit confusing, as lots of the CSS stuff is different from the HTML stuff.

On an unrealted note, I'm glad its Thursday. I really havent slept much lately. And I'm ready for Summer. Now.

PONIES

This past weekend I had a horseshow outside of Shreveport, LA at Holly Hill Farm. I was lucky we had great weather-- I heard it was rainy and gross in Dallas! And, my horse was a rock star all weekend :) I won my division! And, my dressage test wasn't nearly as good as it could have been, but I still got my lowest score ever-- a 27.4. Both of our jumping rounds were double clear. Holly Hill always organizes a great show and I had so much fun! Also, it was really good that every one from my barn placed-- so it was a great weekend. Here are pictures by Jim Stoner, an amazing photographer who frequents horse shows: Michi and I at HHHT 4/10

IdeaS

Ideas of "clients" for website design:
SWADE
Student Council
Spanish Club
Photography
Itinerary

Thoughts? Comments? Revelations?

Let me know.

new project ideas

In website design class, we've learned how to use DreamWeaver. It is a lot faster and easier to use than typing in all of the codes for a HTML page.

Our next assignment will be creating a website for a club/teacher/activity at ESD.
This will makes us design for someone besides ourselves. The only other criteria for the organization we pick is that the website can't need regular updates, as that would become a total pain once the semester is over.

I've come up with a couple ideas for "clients." More later when I make a decision ;)

Pirates of Silicon Valley Essay

Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs had a traditional success stories. Their companies were both total gambles in the beginning, but have gone on to become huge successes. Both men were willing to take the risk of failing because they knew that it was worth trying. However, they both have also been quite lucky.
Of course, both men had genius ideas and brought marketable and useable products to the market. However, they also both started their companies on the cusp of the technological era, so their timing was perfect. Even though success stories of that scale aren’t typical, the “American Dream” of using ingenuity and hard work to become successful remains alive.
Since the Internet has become so widespread, other individuals, such as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, and Mark Zuckerburg, creator of Facebook, have also become very successful with products that were unheard of twenty years ago. These new ideas have become global phenomenon. Certainly the huge accessibility of information over the internet makes it a great place to release a new idea. However, the more common it becomes, the more flooded the internet is with thousands and thousands of websites. The more competition, the harder it will be to succeed as a new company.
But, as the past has certainly proved, these new, great, ideas cannot be predicted. Some will thrive while others will fail. It is impossible to know what will be the “next big thing.” Because of the uncertainty involved in a free market economy, there will always be a place for ingenuity and hard work. That will never go out of style.

dreamweaver

In website design class, so far we've only made pages in HTML, using just notepad. This week we started using Adobe Dreamweaver. It is so much easier!!!
If you type in the content, it does the tags. And, you can create one CSS document with the background, etc. to use for as many pages as possible. I think building webpages will be much faster using Dreamweaver. But, we'll see if it turns out that way :)