Chap 3/4 reflection

A lot of the aspects concerning creating webpages seems too good to be true because of all of the horror stories about how difficult and how much time it takes that I have heard from family members. Because I am not exactly "technologically savy," my concern is not with the teachings of chapter 4 (because I feel that I am able to organize and coordinate my ideas well enough), but rather the parts of chapter 3 (becuase I am unsure as to how quickly the programs like frontpage are going to comprehend in my mind). Also, because I have heard my family talk about web page design for years now, my curiosity was lifted when reading the information in chapter 3 because I wondered how many steps were cut off with the production of frontpage-type applications and if this is a main reason that the internet has become so widely spread or if the interent is just another type of technology that people are bound to learn. I feel that the internet may have gotten too big too quickly and because of applications that make the building of websites easier, we, as a public, have gotten too used to the internet being there and having the constant ability to change whatever we want about certain websites with the click of a button. My wonder is not on how exactly the internet grew, but instead on how the introduction of these applications helped or stunted people's views of the "art" in webpage design or if it has become just another thing that a majority of people can do only because the programs do the hard work for you.