Second Life Experience

My experience through second life was interesting. I still am not sure how to take it. I can admit, I started playing the Sims Social game through facebook when it came out a couple of months ago. Second life is very similar to Sims in a way because it is along the lines of controlling your "person" and making a life all on a computer game. Although I like to play the Sims game, i'd say about once a week when I have free time, I can't think of myself as a second life player. The game seems too "real-life" and complicated for me. I was having a hard time figuring out what the purpose was, or how to even change what my avatar looked like. It is amazing to me that people are able to have businesses through second life and make actual real U.S. dollars off of graphic designs used in second life. I guess if I spent enough time on second life, mastering how to get around and do specific things, it would be a fun thing to do if I was bored and didn't have anything else to do. But as for spending hours upon hours each day on second life; that to me is crazy.

HTML Experience

When I heard the assignment for this week I automatically got excited. When I was younger I used to love using codes and designing my myspace account. I used to make layouts for people and It was my thing when I was younger. Then my senior year in high school I took a course called Webpage Design. At first I absolutely loved this class, but then after I would get assignments about making webpages that were not relevant to me what so ever, I started to hate the class. This class turned me completely against webpage designing and made me over think it. I hadn't even thought to get back in to designing since then, until getting this assignment. 

Since it has been years since I have even looked at codes, I could not for the life of me remember how to even get started or what codes meant what. After some serious "google-ing" I was able to find some of the codes I needed and I starting having the "OH YEAH!!" moments. Although, my webpage is very simple, it got me pretty excited and start thinking to myself that I could start back in to that for fun to see what I could make. Overall, this assignment was awesome for me because it brought back memories of coding.