Digital_Humanities, Weekly Update 11/10: Keep Moving Forward

I don't know if everyone else feels this way, but, most likely due to the fast-approaching end of semester, I feel extremely behind in all of my work for this course. I've been completing the assignments and am diligently and frantically trying to meet all of the requirements for the portfolio, but I can't shake this feeling. I'll be going to the after-class meetings starting next week to try to get on the same page as everyone else and will devote as many hours as I can to actually making progress on the ABQ Airport project, my portfolio, and my research video this weekend, but I still feel pretty stretched for time. I don't know what the end result will be of all of this frantic working, but I hope there is a light at the end of the tunnel and whatever I produce will at least be adequate and satisfying. 

Regardless, I've been working on my portfolio and website as of late. I decided to try to completely revamp the design. It took a bit longer than anticipated, and I spend an embarrassingly long amount of time trying to figure out why my visited link colors were not updating. Apparently I just misspelled "visited" and forgot to add an "i." Spelling definitely counts in HTML and proofreading is a necessity. After jumping that ridiculous hurdle, I'm updating the other pages to now match the design and it's been slow progress, but still, progress none the less. Eventually, I should be able to actually add more content and fill the general requirements of the portfolio before the semester deadline hits. 

The ABQ Airport Project is going just as well as my portfolio, where I've been making small discoveries and baby steps to actually putting something together of value. I've been collaborating with the ABQ Museum to try to get a copy of the Oral History video to put online of Harry Davidson, but there was an error in trying to find a jumpdrive big enough to hold the file. I'll be going back on Monday with an external hard drive to get a copy once and for all. Hopefully during one of the get togethers after class, I can try to organize my work with everyone else's and prepare for Friday's deadline. 

Either way, this weekend is going to be pretty full of work, both digital and non. I don't imagine the workload will decrease anytime soon as well, so I guess the only thing I can really do at this point is keep moving forward. That's not exactly a positive message to end it on, but I am making progress. As of now, I've yet to really run into any technical roadblocks, outside of trying to figure out how to have a dropdown menu bar on my website and make the page resizeable, which I'm sure can be solved with some Googling, but the night is still young.