For my webpage story I found an article about Michelle Obama on the Washington Post website and tweaked it.  I don’t know why exactly I chose this article, but it might have to do with the fact that I think it’s absolutely stupid that anyone would care about how many calories the first lady is consuming in one meal.  That’s her business.  So, I made everything in the article sound absolutely ludicrous.  First of all, I want to make one thing clear about this project- I DID NOT like it!  At all (sorry Martha!).  This class has been challenging enough for me as it is, but this is by far the most frustrating and challenging thing I have done yet.  It did teach me that playing with html codes is definitely not my thing though.

I first started this project by using Firebug.  However, it never wanted to save what I had changed.  Even if I didn’t click away from the page but simply left it alone for a while it changed back to what it had been.  Then, when I finally got everything the way I wanted it, I couldn’t get c-panel to upload the file to my blog.  Well, it uploaded but I couldn’t open the webpage.  When I tried to just upload the image to my blog, I got an error message that said files of that type are not permitted for security reasons. I was extremely fed up with this assignment.  Conveniently, I happened to look at my Twitter stream at this point and saw that Tim Owens had tweeted about something called Bo.lt. So, I decided to check it out. And, needless to say this website is my new best friend because it ended my grueling hours of frustration and anger (THANK YOU Tim Owens)

Unfortunately, this website didn’t allow me to edit the comments that people had left on the original article (which I did edit when using Firebug). So I just deleted them from the page because they didn’t really have the effect that I wanted them to. Since I couldn’t get this to work right, I also didn’t get it to show on my blog the way it was supposed to. But I do have a link http://bo.lt/9ovvm. I know this is definitely not my finest work in this course, but I did try (for days!) to get this right. And now I am DONE.