Another week, another chapter—squeezed in between area design lectures/programs, photography exhibits, family things, and of course our print design work. We both have busy lives, and we both agreed that our commitment to do this together is what’s keeping us on schedule. That, and we were able to have our vid chat before The Oscars last night. Whew.
I suppose it’s on par with knowing the difference between font, typeface, type style, and type family, but we’re having trouble keeping track of the new terminology. Tags, content, elements, attributes… I guess it’ll come with practice. Jim already uses the href attribute in Flickr. It’s all new to me since WordPress has a button to press to make something a clickable link.
The crossword puzzle at the end of each chapter is quirky. It’s not very complex in its structure, and the clues are sometimes a stretch. Jim said he cheats if he doesn’t know the answer. I go back and look through the chapter to see if I can’t figure it out before resorting to peaking at the answers. So for me, it’s a good way to review the lessons.
The coolest thing is that on the way home from church yesterday morning, my 13-year-old stepson saw the book in my purse and wanted to borrow it. I said it was a workbook and we’d buy him his own if he wanted to learn web design. Did he? “Yes.”
Thanks for sharing. I wish i could have made the discussion last night on IR.
So far so good on the CSS. I had an abortive attempt at trying to understand it years ago when I dabbled with GoLive and Dreamweaver, and made a mess of things by trying to use the CSS in those programs as though it were paragraph styles in InDesign. It will be interesting making the jump from just formatting individual pieces of text with styles, and using them to place objects precisely where I want to have them on the page. For a couple of years, I’ve just been paying someone else to do it.
I still feel as though I’m miles from doing any sort of complex site, but these baby steps are exactly what I need. If nothing else, this book is an interesting example of how to break information down to its most basic, and I’m wondering if there’s lessons that I can take from it to apply to my own print design.
Comment by Marcos Harkness — February 23, 2009 @ 10:35 AM
Marc, it sounds like you have not only caught up on the late start, but now are ahead of us! Although I guess just about everyone is ahead of me. Love your comments.
Comment by Anne — February 23, 2009 @ 11:52 AM