After viewing the videos on Lynda.com for this class, I learned a lot of different things about web design. Web is it's own medium, you as a designer, do not have full control over what you can and can not do. It is really something to think about just how little control the designer has over things. The web is constantly changing and you have to keep up with everything to create useful designs. The usability of a site is the most important thing to keep in mind. If people can not interact well with your design, the site has failed. It is also important to test your site in multiple ways while creating it. Browsers nowadays have standards, but you need to keep up with these standards and know how the web is functioning as a whole.
I also learned a lot of new terms throughout these videos, that I may have heard before, but never knew what they described. It was interesting to see the breakdown of the http address of a website and what everything stands for. I learned that you can use different CSS sheets for different devices instead of creating entirely new html documents. You can have one for the web page, print out, and mobile devices. I found this very interesting and also very useful with the expansion of mobile devices.
Another thing I really wanted to hear about was Java script. That was a word that I have heard before, but never really knew what it did when it came to web design. I think that Java script is very important to web design, especially now when interactivity is all people look for anymore. Alone, HTML is a completely static web page, I would really like to look into using Java Script and finding what it can bring to my designs.
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