The awesomeness of a Bio Generator

I was happy that we are picking up steam in class, but the most exciting thing last week was the automatic BIO GENERATOR.

HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS AWESOME THING. There are so many sites that say “write something about yourself” and I have no idea (or no desire) to share a bit, NOW I HAVE A TOOL TO HELP. This is great!

Additional item was the miasma that that is font choice. Yet another piece of your choice that can make or break the look and feel of your website. Yet another small tidbit that people over-choose when making (or not making) choices in their site.

Yet I am not surprised that such choices are made. In some places there are no choice because the font choices and sizes are already made in advance by a company “style guide” which tell you the format that is acceptable. This can be limiting as it is comforting as you are not flooded by well meaning employees telling you to change this or that. Those rails can help you finish your projects quickly as well as protect the overall look and feel of the site.

The other sites I have seen are made by a committee of managers, with a lot of political wrangling behind closed doors for each and every centimeter of the page. No wonder those sites look like a Jackson Pollock.

Journey Entry – Week 3

This week was a challenge. I’m still having issues with the FTP site so it’s been frustrating to get my final project file loaded to Canvas. After many attempts, I think I finally figured it out. Hopefully, it will show up now and Bill can see it.

It was also hard getting back into the groove of writing CSS. It’s been almost a year since I took the beginner web class, so I forgot most of it. However, once I got back into writing CSS again, it all came back. =)

Process Decision-making

The article Better Web type – A Guide to Combining Fonts, reminded me of the great guidlines for choosing and pairing fonts. I appreciated the walk through in determining a sans-serif headline font and the thought process related to the decision making.

And something new I learned from this article is, when matching two fonts, make sure their x-heights align. I had not consciously realized and understood that tip.

And I liked the process info graphic to evaluate fonts.

Great article

wk3 learning journal

I learned this week that there are typographical rules for web design as well as print. I was pleasantly surprised to know that we are encouraged to use one font throughout a whole site. I also learned that ftp uploads require attention to detail, especially when updating a document or file. You have to remember to upload the new one and override the old one. I also learned that styling in CSS requires a lot of memory retention skills. If you continually practice writing the code out instead of using the code generator in Dreamweaver, you will get efficient at it. However, if you are unsure how to code something, the code generator is a real help.