Erik Hanberg’s visit to our class was very interesting. He gave us insight on what it’s like to be an entrepreneur in the age of the internet. Erik talked a lot about how he created income for himself through his various interests. He currently self-publishes a wide range of novels. Erik does through tools at his disposal the internet. He hires people to edit his writing, create book covers, and give him audience feedback. I thought this was extremely cool that he could do it all on his own. This reminded me how much the internet has truly changed this. It has given people the freedom to pursue many opportunities within their interests. It also gives people more accessibility than they had before. People can do so many more things independently. Like become their own publishers. Erik also described all the steps he took to get his name out there as a budding author. He talked about buying email addresses and sending them information about one of his book he did not yet write. On top of the publishing, Erik took on responsibility of doing marketing all by himself. Another thing, Erik talked about creating a Tacoma podcast station. He has a channel named Channel 253 (after Tacoma’s area code). It is fairly new and features various different shows. Erik’s business is essentially giving people the space to host their shows. The podcaster pay his company for the service of being hosted by the Erik’s platform. Overall, Erik’s presentation gave more of perspective of using the internet to work for yourself.
Overall, my experience in creating this simple web page was very easy. I have used HTML for the past 3 years. I learned HTML because of my internship at Adobe. Once I learned, I just kept advancing and advancing. I created the page with ease and tried to pinpoint the necessary elements. To complete the assignment, I used the assignment outline which helped me keep my page simple. Once I figured out what I needed, I just started checking things off my checklist. The one tag I hadn’t used before was “<marquee>”. It was really cool and something I want to use again. I didn’t really know HTML had those movement capabilities. I had believed you needed JavaScript for those kinds of things. It makes me want to do more research on tags like this. I would definitely want to use tags like that for future projects. Also, I learned that using image links from Google don’t work. I usually don’t take image links from the internet so that was important new info
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