I'm home from the semester's first blended session, and thanks to the class activities, my website is live! It's not much right now, admittedly. It's a picture of a kitten sleeping on a laptop, with the caption "i iz on teh interwobz" written below it. (This will change later in the semester.) But it represents the ability to draft a webpage and upload it to a host, and that is pretty cool. I still need to install Dreamweaver on my home computer, and then learn the differences between the CS3 software we used in class and the CS5 that I bought.
At this point in the course I'm a little worried about CSS trivializing the web design process. It seems like there are a number of free templates with good artistic and architectural design; I could probably use their combination of layout, font, color, and so on off the shelf without ever making an original decision. I'll have to be on guard against laziness and ready to edit whatever template I decide on to give it whatever flavor I decide to convey. And of course figuring out how to incorporate a blog and a database will be a challenge as well!
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