Unit 1

During the Designing and Planning Web Pages unit, I was introduced to or made familiar with a variety of topics, all important in general life as well as web design. The first of these was the actual layout of the websites, which is crucial to a good user experience. A crowded and complicated website makes it uncomfortable or even unusable for the visitor. We also made a rubric to grade ourselves on, which is helpful because we are all users of the internet and can weigh in equally. This went onto colored theory in web design, which while similar to regular color theory, is extra valuable in website design, because unlike in art pieces where you can convey any meaning in a one-time viewable object, websites need to be interactive and convey exactly what you want in order to assist the user. In addition to this, I became familiar with hexadecimals, the RGB system, and color numbers, which I’ve always wanted to figure out, since they’re confusing to an untrained perspective. We went on from this to web accessibility, which is an important topic for me because I’ve been using the internet since I was four years old, and even as an older kid I had trouble figuring out how to navigate websites. Nowadays, I can figure it out after some perseverance, but it’s tedious work to figure out a messy website. The disability simulators were very helpful for me, since I’ve always wanted to understand things (literally) from another person’s eyes. It means a lot to me that we’ve advanced enough to not only value accessibility, but to be able to put other people in the perspective of someone who needs accessible resources more than them. I also value everyone being able to use the internet, because it's my favorite place in the world, and I think everyone should have access to it. Accessibility fits into organizing and planning a website, as does layout and design. A disorganized website is the root of any and all potential issues listed above. A disorganized color scheme can be inaccessible to certain people, or at the very least will provide an unhappy and difficult experience for any user. A disorganized layout will be difficult to navigate, and navigation is crucial to using a website in the first place. Everything in this unit has fit in place together in some way, and even though I went in knowing a lot, I learned a lot, too.

Unit 2

During the second unit of Web Design, I learned more about the meat of a website (the coding, files, etc) than the visual prerequisites I encountered in Unit 1. The first thing being the creation of HTML files. Without HTML, we are completely without a website in general, as this is the holder for our code and what the computers use to read and display the page. Next was common formatting and features, such as lists, links, tables, and inserting videos. We created a good handful of tables and learned how to organize and categorize them, including our own personal tier lists (mine being about cats). Then, we added links to email and videos. It’s extra fun being able to click on a button coming from my own page and getting redirected to a random video. After that was the most recent development, that being videos and how we place them. Turns out, it takes a lot of specification to insert a video into HTML! I learned that the poster/thumbnails, caption files, and even the video filetype could be more consuming than adding the MP4 file in by itself. Despite the tedious qualities, it’s been rewarding to copy the individual codes and tags in, upload, check my site, and see a whole video nested on the page.

Unit 3

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Unit 4

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Unit 5

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Unit 6

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Unit 7

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