I will be honest and say that I start every journal assignment by scrolling down the page to see how long the article is. This week, I was pleasantly surprised to see the article was full of bright pictures and clear images, something that always makes reading for homework much more enjoyable. The message of the article, turning PSD into HTML and later into a WordPress was equally fascinating. Chris Spooner does a great job making each step of the process clear and easy to follow, and I never felt bogged down by web publishing jargon.
I have always been someone who sees the world as black and white. As a result, I not only enjoy problems that offer concrete steps to the solution but it helps me grasp the concept better. I believe part of my struggle with coding is I get flustered by the multitude of possibilities to perform tasks. In “Coding Up a Web Design,” Spooner does a good job of preventing me to get flustered. When I first created my HTML document, my coding was layered with too many divs and unnecessary tags; basically the opposite of Spooner’s structure. It is amazing at how much coding goes into a simple page, but it is even more incredible how much simpler Spooner’s structure seemed than mine because he kept it so organized.
Unlike some of the other articles we have read, I think Spooner’s will be very useful as a source when I am struggling to create a web page. His steps were partitioned well, which will make using it as a reference even easier. Spooner is definitely a couple steps ahead of where we stand in our abilities right now, but it is nice to know that I can take my website into a more colorful and fun version of where it stands now. As other people have said, this article would be more beneficial earlier in the class. Though not as broad as wp3schools, I found it to be a lot less foreboding as a beginning web publisher.