I have been having trouble with the writing tools or whatever its called. The tiniest thing is wrong and it doesn’t work. Why do they have to make it so difficult, of course most people don’t have to worry about using the program. I have been trying to change the body color, and can’t figure it out, I don’t want a dull white background with black letters. My google-mashup went alright, I still need to add the link to my page, plus the links back. The whole web page needs to be creative, something my brain lacks. It will take some tweaking and tinkering.
Lab 1 September 24, 2007
9/9/07- chosen to do the state of Missouri.
~yahoo directory search: regional—US States—Missouri
From there research community, people, history for particular cities, regions, or counties.
It took a few minutes to peruse the US Census WWW site, but I found resident population and located the state of Missouri. Graphs and data popped up. Also checked out the percent growth and redistribution of population, compared the US to Missouri alone, which didn’t have a high amount of redistribution or percent growth, except a small region in the southeast. Further searching found all kinds of statistical data reports on Missouri alone, not all the states together. The site is helpful and set-up fairly well, not difficult at all.
The keyword searches I found to be much easier and straightforward, as well as providing more options for the info which I was attempting to find. I checked a few different websites before I found exactly what I was looking for, at the Missouri State Census data page. This site provides information just on the state of Missouri, there is no searching for the correct info then finding the state.
Although the Yahoo Directory site was helpful and not hard to search, I definitely preferred using Google as a keyword search. Google was much easier and straightforward, or I might just prefer because I have used it so often and have never done a search through a directory. It might take some time to get used to it, but as for now I prefer keyword searches.
