Technical Skills (online)

This are the technical skills I learn from facing technical problems during the process of comp 1

Problem: Unable to Embed PDF into Blogger

Reflection:

This problem was really devastating at first because I really thought that I wouldn't be able to insert PDF documents and had to go for PNG or JPEG instead. Big credits to my teacher for helping us out, I was able to find a YouTube tutorial because of the guidance my teacher gave, and now I have learned yet another technical skill that I can apply in a lot of my posts; you can see that I applied this skill a lot in other posts. 

The picture below is a technical skill my teacher tought me, it how to embed and/or insert a document, like a presentation or whatnot. 

However, I came into a problem, a technical problem, which can be seen on the image below. The PDF document I embedded into the blog post was not fully seen, it can't show the document as a whole.

I researched online and found a useful YouTube video that explained how to do it.

These were the steps:

1. Upload the PDF to Google Drive
2. Click "Share" and copy the link of the PDF document. Make sure that "Anyone with the link" has access. 
3. In the blogger page, open up "HTML View"
4. Paste the link.
5. Remove "usp=sharing" and change "view" to "preview"
6. Add the code <iframe src=" " width="640" height="480"></iframe> and instert the PDF link into the src=" "
7. Publish

This is the code I wrote into the HTML view of the blog post:

The PDF was finally in a fitting size and it also have a scrolling feature, so you can scroll up and down through the PDF alongside a zooming feature. As you can see on below:

This is the YouTube Video I watched to help me figure the technical problem out: 

Search keys : How to upload pdf into blogger -  how to upload documents in blogger

Link to the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/PtlTH-GePw8?feature=shared 

Problem: Unable to embed Slides presentation into Blogger

Reflection:

Turns out that many technical problems I faced have solutions that are very easy to do. It may seem confusing at first for me and sometimes even feel hopeless, maybe I'm a bit too dramatic but that's how It felt internally, but by time you'll eventually learn and find the solution to every problem. And you'll realize how stupidly stressed you were turns out the problem was that easy to fix- that's what I experienced that time. Note to myself, if you come into a problem that may seem like a dead-end or a journey with no path, keep exploring and don't give up so easily, never let the problem win you over, there are many creative ways you can do to solve problems with that creative brain of yours. 

I had no idea how to add a slide document to my blog post. I thought it was not possible and had to insert screenshots of each individual slide. Turns out you can and I was just inexperienced because blogger is somewhat a new thing for me. 

I asked my teacher if it was possible to even embed a whole presentation into my blog post. He told me that it is possible and that he atcually already explained it to the class, I was just not paying attention apparently. 

Steps by steps (Credits: My Teacher):

1. Open your slides document and click on Share
2. Click on Manage and change the General Access to "Anyone with the link"
3. Find the button "Publish to Web" then click on it
4. Click on Embed 
5. Copy the code provided into your blog's HTML

I added that code into my blog's HTML and I was able to add the slides into my blog post, you can go through the whole presentation back and forth. Here is the slides I embeded:

You can check my "Component 1 - Brief" blog to see the slides document I embedded.

Problem: Flippingbook subscription free trial expired

Reflection:

At a moment of no hope there will always be a glimpse of light as long as there's faith. That sentence sums up this experience of mine. I'm so glad I found an alternative that's free because I don't have to share any bread of mine. 

The links to my magazine was no longer online as my free trial has expired, and luckily I realized this before it was too late (submission date). I tried renewing my trial but that won't do as it's a one time trial, the only way it to pay, so before doing so I tried to find alternatives that's free or more affordable.

I simply searched on Google for a free online flip book creator

This is what I found and it works amazingly.

Couldn't be more satisfied with the results, I like it.