Wednesday, September 30, 2015

What is web design?

              What is web design? It is the process of imagining, designing, and developing electronic files to publish on the internet. Imaging it means to set up smart goals and visualize what the website will look like. Designing it means to make it look how it was imagined. For example, choosing structure, color, font, etc. Finally, developing means to make it behave according to the imagined functions. For example, coding links to actually move the viewer to different places, playing videos or audio files when clicked, etc. The process of web designing may be hard but it is definitely worth the time and effort.

Website vs. Webpage

               What is a website? A website is a location connected to the internet that maintains pages on the world wide web. What does this mean? If the parts of the definition were broken down it could be understood easier. Having a location means that it has a url or address telling where to find it on the worldwide web. Being connected to the internet means that it can be accessed from around the world by searching the url. Maintaining pages means that it contains webpages. These parts are fundamental in having a website.
              What is a webpage? This is a hypertext document that is connected to the worldwide web. What exactly does this mean? It means that it was coded to be how it is and it may contain text, images, videos, or other forms of media. These are what are inside the websites. An analogy to put these 2 in perspective is that a website is to a webpage as baseball teams are to the Yankees. Although a website contains webpages, it is not limited to just one.

lab 2

Lab 2 was very similar to lab 1. It consisted of the same elements: sentences, headings, tags. It had one difference... we had to ad an image! If I thought that lab ! was hard, I haven't seen anything yet. I feel confident in my lab because it turned out to my satisfaction and I am proud of my ability to learn the new tag.

lab 1

                            In this lab we learned coding. We learned the tags and punctuation of coding. We learned what goes where. It was pretty basic because we only put headings and sentences. I feel Proud because I completed it.
                           We didn't have to just know them, we also had to use them. Coding was difficult because one missed space or wrong tag messes up the whole lab. It took a lot of getting used to and a bunch of mistakes later I finally understand the basics. I made progress!
Here is where visual design ended and digital design began.