Education - No Comments » - Posted on August, 28 at 7:05 am
I decided to take the LET this year, and up unto to these days, I still have not reviewed for it. Well, the reason was that I don’t want to get myself confused between what I have learned from my work lately, since those are very complicated computer-related things, and if I will try to review for the LET, I may not be able to concentrate on my first days on the floor as a Technical Support Representative.
But there’s a month left now before the exam, so I had to force myself to review, or else I will fail. So, I have to get my time managed well now, and besides this will just be one month of review. Good luck to me. I’m glad though that I only have six hours a day work, and I have weekends.
Anyway, the reason I am taking LET even though I am a Mass Communications Major in Journalism graduate, is that I also have 18 units of Education. And since my major is Journalism, I am trying to get a license to teach English in Secondary schools. And these are the subjects I have to review for the exam:
- English
- Filipino
- Mathematics
- Natural Sciences
- Social Sciences
- Foundation of Education and Human Growth Development
- Principles and Strategies of Teaching
- Measurement and Evaluation
- Social Philosophies
I have my resources now for the review. I’ve got books as well as my old notes. Scanning them is like recalling my years in high school, as well, as thinking what had I learned during my summer classes for Education. I hope I can do this. =)
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web design - No Comments » - Posted on August, 26 at 4:53 am
Remember the post where I talked about changing a layout of a Pligg’s template? Well, it was not successful, or let’s just say I didn’t push through with it. I got impatient so I put it off. Besides, the site will not be live until October, so I still have time, or maybe my friend will do it by himself.
Though I did not do my first-ever-challenging-web-designing task, I was able to do something else. I designed some html pages for my Wordpress blog. I copied the stylesheet though of my Wordpress theme Arthemia. Although the biggest reason I copied the stylesheet was for me to save time, and since I was impatient to do my own, the other sensible excuse was for that the html pages be identical to the current Wordpress theme. I don’t want my visitors get confused seeing different designs on one site.
Anyway, the experience was cool. I didn’t use any program like Dreamweaver to help me make this task easier. I think this was helpful in a way so that I’d learn the basics myself. I just looked up for HTML codes online and pasted it on my index.php file. I also clicked ‘view source’ of some sites I want to imitate just to understand how it had been done, and then added the HTML codes on my file, then tested them to see how and if it works. But I used PSPad in editing the files I was creating. Unlike editing in notepad, the codes in this application have colors and some are indented. It was easy for me to look up for a code. In my first hours of editing though, I used notepad, and just by looking at all those texts gave me headache. Thank god my friend suggested PSPad.
After almost 25 hours, here is the result, the list of korean dramas with OST lyrics in my blog. (If you browse the page, and saw all those pages that have lists, they are the HTML pages.) The hardest part on this task was adding 120 anchors, just so that my visitors can easily see the lyrics they want after clicking a link. Also, I have to make 26 identical pages, which I think is easy, if not only they were not 26 pages. (Each letter of the alphabet has their own page.) Not to mention the separate page for numbers, and 3 other pages, and looking for images in Yesasia.com for the auto-rotate-images effect I’d used.
Anyway, the main reason why I created the HTML pages in replacement of the old pages saved in Wordpress, is for us (my partner and I) to save the memory usage on the server…hmmm… Well, that’s what I understood.
The old pages were the ones that get the highest traffic in the blog for these are the index pages for all the lyrics published in the site. Since the pages were in Wordpress, the server accesses the Wordpress database everytime the pages are opened by a visitor, thus, consuming a lot of memory. Also, I think the HTML pages now make it easy for my visitors to locate a lyric in my site.
Well, this is my first web pages, and I hope I can do more next time. =)
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ramblings - No Comments » - Posted on August, 26 at 1:41 am
Remembered my blog post about Kreah, that it has a definition in Urban Dictionary? So, a few weeks ago, I found out that my real name Reah has a definition as well in that dictionary. So to use Reah as a word it means:
1. an affirmative response
2. a noise made out of habbit
Example of usage:
“Hey John can you pass me that?”
“Reah”
Wow. My name means yes! Cool. But the other meaning is not cool though. lol.. But I understand why is that. Here is a screenshot of other meanings for the word “reah”.
Since that has been added there, for sure some people have actually used that word, unless there are some conspiracy going on in the entries that are added in Urban dictionary, or there is really a product that is called reah. Whatever…
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blogging - No Comments » - Posted on August, 25 at 1:34 am
It’s interesting that my dear friend Chris admitted he suck at blogging. Well, I agree he sucks if the reason of keeping his blog is to earn from it, because a blogger should really keep his blog updated to keep his readers grow. But Chris blogs because he just want to share interesting things to his readers. And if he has not updated lately, I think the reason behind it is just that, he is saying to himself “I need to write to a post because I have to update my blog,” and he’ll end up not writing at all because it now sounds like a commitment to keep a blog.
It’s just that, there is a huge difference between “I need to blog today,” and “I want to blog today”. And I prefer to say the latter. Thinking that I need to publish an article next week just to keep my blog updated makes me want to not blog at all. Don’t you agree it’s annoying to think of a topic when you are not in the mood to write? Why don’t you just blog when you feel inspired to write?
Today, I am inspired to write, that’s why I have this post and my last blog post was two months ago. Cool eh? In fact, I’ll be blogging in the next few days, until I am not in the mood again to write.
Anyways, I like Chris posts. I like his writing style. Chris views enlightens me on internet marketing and other stuff, and his ramblings are interesting. If only he has the motivation to write regularly, he can be one of the famous blogger out there. I believe he’ll keep on writing, it’s just that he needs to feel inspired to write.
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web design - 3 Comments » - Posted on June, 20 at 2:02 am
Oh oh…. this can be really a hard one since I am not a web designer (but I want to be). And this is the first time I’m going to edit an existing template for someone else’s site. If it’s for my site, I don’t care much. Also, this is more complicated than editing wordpress themes, I am going to edit a Pligg template, change the design…etc.. Just reading the tutorials make me want to surrender, but I guess if I really want to learn and be a super woman web master and blogger, I have to do this.
Oh please, I hope I can do it. I’ll give you an update once I am done with it, but for now, don’t expect much because I’m still gathering my brain cells to understand everything on my own.
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