NWDB Chs. 3 & 4

Madison Ultis
January 29, 2008

Although there wasn't much to chapter 3 except laying out the basics of how to go about designing a web page, I thought it was interesting, because I have absolutely no idea how to even begin. I look at the blank Dreamweaver screen and get pretty overwhelmed, which is interesting, because not much on the computer alienates me. This chapter definitely got me excited, though, about the different things I could create online. I think it's going to be very cool to take something that I created on paper, and convert it to something on the web where people can navigate through in a different way than just turning the page. I know that I would prefer to have Dreamweaver or FrontPage do all the coding for me...I think this will alleviate any stress or added frustration to learning web design. I do think that if this is something that I end up doing pretty well, then I would try to take on learning codes, etc...but for now, I'll just stick with letting them do it for me. In terms of all the other things they went through, such as layering, graphics, text boxes, that is all stuff that seems so foreign to me still, but I am excited to see if I can really do this!

I liked chapter 4 because I liked being able to figure out what I need to do before getting started. Again, I think it did a nice job of laying out important things to remember when starting a web page. Luckily, my fiance is a web designer/graphic designer and he works from home, so the last few months I've watched him create websites, and it's definitely interesting and takes a lot of time and work. Some of the stuff seems kind of tedious. In terms of hosting a site, and all that, I am fairly familiar because we own a few different domain names through godaddy.com. My fiance sees it as an investment, so I am somewhat familiar with the idea of hosting a site.
Overall I found the reading to be worthwhile because it gave me an idea of what we would be diving into first.