Welcome to Web Design!

Are you excited about getting started on the new semester?  Have you ever felt "out of the loop" with technology?  Ok maybe not as "out of the loop" as the walkman man! LOL

While we discover the world of web design, you will be immersed in everything geeky.  Ok, not everything, but you will discover a world of possibilities outside of Facebook and gaming.

Have you heard of the 365 day project?  Basically it is a project where you document your year through daily pictures.  Numerous sites even have easy ways to post such as Flickr, and others have themes to help you come up with ideas.  Some people have taken the idea and added their own twist, such as Paula Naugle.  She is posting a picture of one tweet from the day that helped her learn and connect with others.

We are going to have our own twist to this project.  You will be in this class for 44 days, so we will run a 44 day techie project.  Each day you will write a blog post including a picture of the day.  This picture will be of something techie from a screen shot of a awesome site to a graphic you have created.  These blog posts can be in our online classroom or you can choose your own platform such as Posterous or Blogger.

I'm looking forward to seeing things through your eyes:)

Pictures Can Say a Thousand Words

The following post is by our student guest blogger, Anterrica M. 


Photography can be a very interesting thing!  Most people think photography is capturing things that are happening at the moment, something people do for a living, or even just picking up a camera and taking a picture of themselves.  This is all true, but photography can be way more than that.  Photography is a type of art.  Most people do not realize that photographs and paintings are very closely related, and pictures can say a thousand words.

Photography is more than just picking up a camera and aiming at something.  There are many techniques that come along with the art form of photography.  The "Rule of Thirds" is one technique where you imagine that the image is divided into a tic-tac-toe board.  This tic-tac-toe board consist of two horizontal lines, as well as two vertical.  These lines can be used when capturing a picture of a person.  You should line their eyes up on one of the horizontal lines.  If you are capturing some type of tall object, you should line it up on either of the vertical lines.

By the way, have you ever noticed that all of the parts in a picture go together? I thought this was a very cool concept.