Thursday, July 19, 2012

The wonderful world of web Design


Web Design


One of the things I enjoy is learning to design and code web sites.
I’m not sure if it’s the learning I like or the actual web design but I find it fascinating and exciting at the same time. 
  I made the decision to train in a more formal way and have signed up with the World of Web Professionals (http://www.schoolofweb.org) to do a web masters course
These blog posts titled: The wonderful world of web design, are as much for my benefit as they could be for yours.

  I intend to post my discoveries, as a form of note taking, my thoughts, and probably a few frustrations along the way.   Also things to look for in a great web site.

The first thing that strikes me as I begin is the sense that the web is a brave new world.  Even though the first web page was posted by Tim Berners Lee around 1990 find out more at the w3 site. http://w3.org/people/berners-lee

 The idea of linking (Hypertext) for example was discussed in documents and demonstrated as early as 1968, by Doug Englebart and seventeen researchers at Stanford research center.

The Hypertext would have to be the biggest future we take for granted about the web.  It would be safe to say without the ability to jump from one piece of information to another in an instant the web wouldn’t be the place it is today. 
 This Technology was invented by someone, and in fact its use has been in dispute in the past with a patient being posted by British telecom, and a court case between them and an internet service provider taking place that could have changed the web or at least our ability to use it so freely.

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