Web Development Perceptions

My current perceptions of web design is that it is not only becoming more interactive technologies like Flash but also that well planned out and easy to navigate design is becoming paramount. As an example i would site site's such as banking websites. If you compare a site such as First Federal to one such as Wells Fargo i thing that you will be able to see that wells fargo is more intuitive and geared more towards current customers. It is far easier to navigate if your focus is online banking and i think it is more visually striking. Which for a business is important. With CSS i think there is positive push towards keeping web content separated into the three layers. And i also there is going to be an even heavier push towards major websites being accessible. Im talking in terms of technologies such as the iphone and phone based web browsers. The recent newsletter from Sitepoint stated that the new web crawler for google can now read flash based text. And flash based text loaded using javascript (I'm not sure what that means). But from last semester we learned that one of the drawbacks to using flash fonts and flash content was that it wasn't indexed by google and other search engines. I think that this new approach is going to allow websites to still have optimized SEO while still being greatly enhanced with flash. So the future of the web is going to be more interactive and possibly faster, requiring a greater amount of knowledge as well as an eye towards design. As someone who loves art and who loves design i think that as a web developer the possibility to impact society is still yet to be determined. Look how Facebook, Hotmail, Youtube, Myspace has impacted society. If you have a good idea who knows what can happen.

good evening a little about me

Well i have never blogged before but here it goes. My name is Dean Elison although it may appear as David on the records for the class. My full name is David Dean Elison but i go by Dean. Its a little different going by my middle name i always tend to confuse the teacher on the first or third week of school. I currently live in Burley and i commute to the CSI campus four days a week. I am in my third semester at CSI and i am looking forward to an interesting semester. There isn't much unusual about me i hope but then again being different is generally a good thing. I guess my main hobby is painting or drawing or photography or gym work. But in reality there really isn't much time for any of those things except the gym which i use as a natural way of relieving stress. (Its an endorphin thing.) I really enjoy most aspects of graphic and web design and yes i even quite like the html and CSS. In fact in my spare time i am always reading up on current trends in programming and where things are heading. (by the way i am a little concerned with the controversy over the new javascript standards being developed). But that aside i have actually looked forward to learning javascript because I'm hoping it will connect some dots in the web world. As far as my expectations for this course i want to learn not only about javascript and dhtml code but also how everything else connects to web design such as SQL, PHP, what is RUBY, and if possible what are SPRY menus in Dreamweaver. A general overview of what the different languages are and how they fit into being a web developer would really help with my understanding of everything else.