Independent Component 1

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, ALEXIS ALVAREZ, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 32 hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.
• https://www.codecademy.com
• Sam Hernandez / Mentor
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours. 
• To access my IC #1 log, click here!
• (d) Explain what you completed. 
• I completed a website for our Model Assembly project. The main goal of the website was for visitors to go on the website and have the opportunity to look at the bills created by everyone. Several of my hours for my IC were also tutorial lessons that I received from my mentor Sam Hernandez or online. 
• INTERPRETIVE 

• Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  

• When I first started off in the beginning of the school year, I didn't have much knowledge on how to code or use HTML to code websites. I kept to the book and didn't try new things. Throughout this independent component, I've learned many skills and how much time actually goes into a project like this. At first I was skeptical to whether I would have enough hours but through the days, the hours just flew by! 

The picture below shows a picture of the layout of each BILL Page that the user can visit. It took quite a while to learn how to create their own individual page and have an embedded code  for their documents. This made it easier for the user to access the bills.


• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. 
• This webpage I created helped me practice my first answer for my EQ, Unity. I had to make sure all the fonts and pictures complimented each other. 
• Designing my own webpage really helped me focus on the Visual Design aspect of creating a design. Its so crucial and important to make sure the design is visually pleasing.
• Learning how to code and use HTML Coding helped me understand a whole new language to the design world. 
• We as designers have the power to change anything. I had the ability to personalize my own Wordpress theme to fit my standards which really gave me a feel of how a Visual Designer feels when working on projects.