Sunday, October 5, 2014

Chapters 1-3

The first section of Jennifer Niederst Robbins’s book, Learning Web Design, is comprised of three chapters giving a general overview of what goes into designing a website. In chapter one, Robbins describes web design as having four subcategories: design, development, content strategy, and multimedia. Then she introduced us to some web-related technologies that are used while creating websites, such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CCS), and JavaScript. The second chapter describes how the web works, dissects URLs, and shows how an HTML markup creates a webpage. The final chapter of the section discusses how the web has been expanding and evolving. For example, the internet in 2007 was solely on computers and now web designers need to take phones and tablets into consideration when working on websites.

What are your web design goals?
My biggest goal is being able to design my own class website. A site parents can visit to get a sneak peak of what their child is learning and the doing at school. If a student is unable to make it to school, they can visit the site and know what they missed that day.

Which aspect of web design interests you the most?
Web design is completely new to me, but as of right now the graphic design aspect interests me the most. I enjoy painting and being crafty, so the artistic element of graphic design is intriguing. However, I’m looking forward to learning and familiarizing myself with each aspect of web design.

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