The Wonderful World of Web Design
Inspired by my brilliant web portfolio, my sister has decided to embark on an epic quest to build her own website. She comes from a background in interior design and consequently has absolutely no web design experience. Naturally, being the gifted web-savvy person that I am, I headed to Denver this weekend to unload upon her my wealth of internet knowledge.
I’ve been putting my HTML skills to use for several years now and working on my own website is pretty much second nature. When I got to my sister’s place for her crash course in web design, however, I had absolutely no idea where to start. I have to give major props to the people who teach web design courses, because I found it incredibly hard to explain. I rambled on endlessly about HTML, Dreamweaver and CSS without really knowing if anything I was saying was making sense. It’s weird how something can come so easy to a person yet it can be so difficult to explain. Fortunately, I had the benefit of being able to open Dreamweaver and actually show her how things work. I can’t imagine trying to teach it any other way.
“Ok so now find that color code in your cascading style sheet and change it to the code for the color you want. Then if you want to add a line break, type the less than symbol and then br and then the greater than symbol…”
Somehow I don’t see that one working out very well.
She claims that what I had told her made sense, but it is possible she was just being nice. I suppose the effectiveness of my lesson will be put to the test when she sits down to build her site. With any luck, my instructions will serve her well and she will soon have a site almost as fabulous as mine.
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