Class 2/20/07

As usual I learned something new during class this week.

Unfortunately, I was a little bored with the first half of class and the continued use of Microsoft Publisher. I missed class on 2/13 and spent quite a bit of time during the week exploring and learning about Publisher in an attempt to catch up on what I missed. When I read the information on the 2/20 class and saw it said continuing with Publisher I assumed (I know I know never assume) we would be given instruction on some additional features. If I had realized we would be having free time with Publisher in class I probably would not have used it as much during the week.
On the topic of Publisher itself I am very happy to have this program. In my past versions of office I did not have Publisher, and when I changed to Office 2003 I did not notice its addition. Now that I know its here I plan to use it all the time both for myself and my husband's business. To me it seems similar to using Word and templates in Word but much much easier and without some of those weird quirky problems that Word can have.

The basics we learned of Dreamweaver were nice. I have built a website before using the tools that Earthlink provides its members. It was a very basic cookie cutter style builder. Dreamweaver so far appears to have all the options of simply using HTML but designed so you don't have to know the HTML in order to get the same effects. I look forward to using this program and wish it was cheaper so I could buy it for myself. It would be nice if we received a discount through the school on programs. Main TAMU has an agreement with some large software companies to allow students major discounts when buying various programs. I wonder if we can take advantage of this since we are a TAMU owned school.