Kadie Rolfzen

Two days into code, I have been reminded more and more about all the features that code create. When I made my first ever webpage, I remember that I did not have a single clue of how to do anything that made the webpage look the least bit appealing. Just within the past two classes, I have learned more things to do with code than I did with an entire semester of beginning layout. Its incredible how one word essentially (such as <style>) can make or break the design of a page. This word also makes it so much easier because you can just use a CSS as an external link to be able to code all of your pieces at one time.

I have been going through webpages since class ended and just looking at all the incredible things that webpages can do and am simply amazed at how all of its functions are based on words that are typed out behind the scenes. I’m sure there are so many things of code in this world that not even the smartest people have discovered.

When I immediately think of what design strategy is, I think of ways that people set up their designs and everything that goes into making the end design product. Upon looking it up, design strategy helps businesses figure out what to do and make as well as why they should do that and in the end, it helps them contextualize concepts right away and for the future as well. A design strategy is set up to help resolve a group of problems such as identifying the imperative problems that need to be addressed in businesses like their specific products and services. The strategy also helps companies list out the products and services that they need to launch and which ones need to go first.

In the end, the design strategy helps design as a fundamental aspect of the intent of the brand.

There are a number of companies that have made this design strategy an integral part of their business practice. Some examples are Jump Associates, IDEO, fuseproject, and even the designer Tom Hardy. Design strategy can be summed up as the “language used to express your client’s business strategy more clearly. It allows the business multiple paths of success when different problems arise for the best possible solution.” – Jamie Koval

Before lecture, I have never really thought about everything that goes into making an HTML, which I learned stands for hypertext markup language. I always just thought that it was go to some website and pick out a template and insert whatever you want to make it your own. I could not have been more wrong. Day Two brought me more knowledge and I couldn’t be more excited to start experimenting with making my own webpage. My mind already is wandering with images of what I think my webpage will look like. Now how I will code it, thats the real question.

Learning new programs is always scary but so far, coding is something that just seems fun to me and kind of like a big puzzle.

Things I learned today about coding:

Dreamweaver:

• start from scratch and build up yourself
• one mistake throws off the whole page
• used to make webpages as well as applications

CodeAcademy:

• some codes are self closing </> and others are not <title></title>.
• forgetting to put in the gators (that is what I call these:<>) will give you headaches
• there is way too much coding that goes into just changing a word from black to red

The sky is blue.