…Hours this week: 9 hours, Total: 36 hours.
Day 7 – Tuesday, October 26, 2009 – 8:30am to 12:30pm = 4 hrs, Total: 31 hrs:
It was a very simple day today. Nothing real big happened much and it was a bit slow. It seemed that there were a good amount of the staff that were out of the office today also because it was pretty quite. I mean, I actually had time to get up and walk around. Figured that since I had the opportunity, that I could actually talk with people. However, since not very many people were around I really did not get to talk with anyone other than Anna and Rose.
I picked up where I left off on designing the “Ask the Fitness Expert” page. Created the banner, which has since been replaced by Chris’ (“The Fitness Expert” and Anna’s husband whom owns the CrossFit Underworld Gym in Dallas) personal logo/banner. I even created the ‘blur’ that contained the first three questions. It was kind of funny, I was asking questions that I already knew about (I use to be a fitness trainer and nutritionist) and then I was signing them with different fictitious-ish names from the surrounding DFW Metroplex.
Also, did my usual update of the Community Calendar. Oh and I created a new link and page to a pre-built template from the “Tribune” that just needed to be uploaded into Assembler and then called into the P2P system to show up on the page.
Honestly, today is kind of a blur. It went by so fast even though there was not that much to do.
Day 8 – Thursday, October 29, 2009 – 1pm to 5:30pm = 5 hrs, Total: 36 hrs:
Well if Tuesday was the day of not much happening, today was the day of being busy. I started a new project and created a page for The 33’s new contest of their “Two-a-day Wii Giveaway” that will be running for 15 days from November 2nd. People who tune into “Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader” at 5pm and again to “The Simpsons” at 6pm will have a chance to enter and win. All they have to do is listen for the Key words that will be given during commercial breaks and then go to the websites page that I created for it and then enter their information with the correct key word. Sounds pretty cool. I wish I could play. Though I have told friends about it. For the Wii page, I had the opportunity to learn something new and create forms, more specifically, official entry forms for a contest in Assembler and P2P.
Oh man! When I went to update the “Fitness Expert” page today, I somehow totally messed up the “Hair Expert” page, by practically deleting the whole thing. I am not really sure how it happened, but more likely because I just picked the wrong expert page. I would have asked Anna to help fix it, but by that point she had stepped out for lunch really quick since she was running little late on taking it. So I spend a good majority of time trying to fix the page only to find out that she was getting ready to can the “Ask the Hair Expert” page since it had been inactive for a while now. Go figure eh?
However, by all that happening, I learned a great deal about how the system works and that there are just some buttons that you should not push. I think they should be labeled as such. Only one of those destructive buttons, located in the P2P, system actually ask you to make sure that what you are about to do is what you want because the process cannot be resolved for it. Also, although I had been creating quite a few “photo galleries” so far (in P2P), I had never actually had the opportunity to get to create a “Collection” that holds a collection of similar items (stories, photo galleries, blurbs, etc. until now. Kind of an important thing to know when actually building a page that will display photo galleries. So, had I not flubbed on nearly destroying the hair expert page, I probably would have not had the chance to learn more about what you do.
Other than that, I made sure to send out my emails to Anna and Jennifer about my evaluation forms, to remind them that I would be needing those soon. Anna actually left early today for her nephews birthday party and I wound up staying almost an hour later than my usual time to head out, to work on more of the Wii-a-Day Giveaway contest.
Evaluation:
Overall it was a fairly simple week. With presentations coming up, I am still not quite sure what to do it over. I guess I just talk about what I have been doing so far? I mention this, because it is generally on my mind when I am there at The 33. I feel that this week was a good one. It just seemed to go by so fast. I need to start getting out into the office and really start meeting people. Though, I find it hard for me to do so…not because I am not social, but because there is work to be done and I like doing it. I tend to just work straight through. Not uncommon, but I will try this next week to make more of an effort to not let all the ‘work’ to be done take over time I could be using to utilize the internship.
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