This week was exiting and overwhelming at the same time. This is really my first time developing a website and writing an html code to create a website. With the help of Steven Fett, he helped me in downloading the program Brackets. This program allows the user to write the code and see a live preview of their website as they are developing it. Really great for a first time user to website code. Figure 1 shows the Brackets program and live preview of my site being developed. With the help of an HTML Cheat Sheet and the program Brackets, I was able to put together this simple website design. I am hoping as the program moves forward I will be able to develop a cleaner and more complex web design that will be easy to navigate.



Figure 1: Using brackets to develop a website with a live preview of it as it is being worked on




Academy Final Project Proposal


For this semester, I have decided to design and build an LED phone case for the Samsung Galaxy S5. I want it to be powered externally from the phone battery and controlled by a button on the side of a case. Preliminary thoughts, I want it to be able to either stay on one color chosen by the user, or have a random changing on the colors.
The case will be made out of 3D printed material as it will provide a good fit for the phone. The design or symbol on the back will be laser cut and inlaid within the case. Another idea for the backing was to have it be opaque. I would need to develop a board that controls the LED with a button set up.
A sketch of my proposal can be found here:Project Proposal

GitHub & GitShell

Part of this week was to get GitHub and GitShell up on our computers so that our progress could be tracked throughout the academy. We had to generate the right SSH keys and get the master folder for our group downloaded. Figure 2 shows the file being downloaded from GitHub and Figure 3 shows the file successfully downloaded onto our local computers.
Figure 2: Using GitShell to Generate ssh key and Downloading Archive Folder
Figure 3: File Downloaded Successfully onto Local Computer

To push to the archive the following commands are used:
git fetch (checks repository)
git pull (updates local file)
git status (see what's up)
git add (add files to be pushed to master)
git status
git commit -m "message" (creates commit)
git push (pushes files to master)

If the color of the "master" is blue than that means you are caught up and are not behind on the commits.

EDIT

After watching the academy videos I realized I needed to change my website since my first one was one long page and did not look appealing. I decided to switch from the program Brackets and moved to the program Dreamweaver. This program works a lot like Brackets, but seems to be easier to use and has more control over website building. Some of the same features I liked in Brackets are in Dreamweaver like the live preview. However, Dreamweaver is easier to add things into a website like images and tables. I am glad I switched over and hope you like it too!
My old website can be found here:Old Website Design