Thoreau, part 1

As I mentioned in a previous post, I spent part of Sunday night working on this assignment for LIS 2600. I wish that I didn't have to put off this assignment until the last minute, but fortunately it only took me about an hour to complete. The instructions were quite vague and since I have the syllabus printed out, I didn't realize there was a hyperlink embedded in there until I went to the actual syllabus on Blackboard and found the necessary fragment there.

Anyhow, after reading the discussion board, I realized that instead of going to the address specified, I had to download Filezilla first and then type in that address as well as the port before uploading my work there. To be completely honest, I'm still not completely sure that I did this correctly. As of yesterday, I still haven't received a grade on this assignment. Yes, I was able to see my work (following another really useful link in the Discussion Board which pointed to someone else's work on this assignment) and hopefully, our instructors can see it, too. I almost posted the link to the dB just to prove that it worked. I did get that infamous 404 (or was it 403?) error the first time I tried to view it and I'm still not exactly sure why. That was OK, though, because I realized that I didn't do the assignment correctly the first time around and so I had to edit it (I used KompoZer, which I found much, much more user-friendly for a relative HTML novice like myself than Amaya). Anyway, fortunately I didn't even have to use any coding. I just edited the fragment in GUI mode (the default mode when the program opens), saved it as an HTML file and uploaded to Filezilla.

As a side note, I'm glad that I didn't post it to Google as some of the other students did. I know that Dr. Tomer won't penalize any of us since he initially said that it was OK, but it seems like those who used it will have more work on their hands for this week. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I almost ended up using it before figuring out that I could just download Filezilla and then upload my document there.

I just hope that this week's assignment (which I haven't started yet) will be as (relatively) painless. It seems like a continuation of last week's work with some added hyperlinks and formatting, but I don't wanna judge it until I do it. Onward!