Hello You Beautifully Realistic World,
This week has been a struggle so I'm sorry for my blog being typed up at the photo finish.
While reading this weeks' chapters in Dreamweaver CS5, I realized that I have already applied CSS and prematurely played with choosing layouts with multiple frames in Lab 1 and 2 (Chapter 12 of Dreamweaver). With the 2nd lab, it was very confusing because I did not understand the concept of different frames being their own pages, in a sense. It was only until I clicked on the Home Page link (without added a target) and my home page was nested in the side frame. I didn't like it at first but I did like how I applied it to my family page; if you click on one of my family members, only the mainframe will change and simulates being on the same main Mi Familia page.
Working within these last chapters, I was getting familiar with borders, fonts, px, creating classes, inline, tags, tables and much more; on my Lab 3 page, it looks like a mess but it applies much to what I learned with a mix of my sarcasm (I do like do give people something to lightly chuckle over).
The struggle I did have was in Chapter 8, in the section of "To modify your navigation" which was cause by my confusion with "Laying Out Your Page" section. I did not understand the logo situation in Step 6, which left that practice page a bit of a mess towards the end.
While researching and looking at the prototypes of Xiang Tea, I saw many web designs choices that embrace simplicity and minimalism while others were bold, confusing and alluring(Please click here to see some trends). A site needs to be easy to interact with, both readability and navigational wise. It needs to be attractive through its illustration, its font and multimedia features. With all of this being considered, white space needs to calculated. A site cannot be clustered or a user will feel bombarded and will not know where to start.
It was so much to take in but do NOT GIVE UP. Each week gets us closer to becoming fluent users.
Goodnight!
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