On sale now

When websites are designed, sometimes they are used to help sell a company's products and/or services. That's so both ends of the line (the merchant and the customer) get what they want. The merchant receives the money the customer pays, and the customer receives what she paid for (based on how the site goes together).

The connection between money and web design lies within one key ingredient: simplicity. It has to be presented in a way the customer and merchant see fit and can agree on.

The media is the massage.

So says the great Marshall McLuhan...

The importance of adding media to a site (audio, video or images) is help to convey ideas through more than just text alone. Even if it means having to use another's work (especially by giving credit where credit's due), an idea can be built upon from another's work. I know, because I visit YouTube almost regularly not just to be entertained, but also gain an understanding of what the videos in my subscriptions are trying to tell me.

Sure, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but a video certainly goes above and beyond... but who am I to judge?

Building a better site around you

When building Web sites, it can either seem like second nature (provided you know the basics) or a challenge (if any design ideas pop out). When I complete the assignments, I usually feel confident- in a way. You see, I often depend on whether or not I have I have to keep switching codes when putting a site together.

So, through getting an idea of what's going on, Web design isn't a problem for me.

Path to someplace...

So far the course is rather easy as far as Web design courses go. Just fresh out from taking my midterm last week. I really enjoyed those FranklinLive sessions, since they gave us a chance to connect on a common ground. Nothing I know can make this better; it's just fine as it is.

Dynamic vices

One of my favorite sorts of websites is the dynamic kind. By that, I mean a site that contains stuff a user like me can interact with. If I go onto a site like Dailymotion, for example, I can preview a clip by scenes just by rolling over the clip to see some other related pictures from the clip in question. Other sites, have Twitter feeds that pop up at random by the time they're posted. Rollover or re-update, dynamic sites are sites everyone can relate to.

Suc-CSS breeds suc-CSS

Well, I think I recall a time back during sophomore year at Canisius in my DMA207 class, where we experimented with tables, CSS and such. Normally, I would've been rather a little harried about diving right into a related subject, but I knew that even tables have disadvantages. Thanks to using this uniform code, I managed to pull through, no problem.

Putting to bed the "embed"

CSS (Cascade-style sheeting) is way better than embedding, in my opinion. That way, you don't have go to from page to page to alter what's inside just to make one page like the other. From one page, you can choose an element to make uniform for the site, such as text size or color, background color, or tables. I hope I can gain some good experience from this when I make my site.