Forms

I was so surprised how easy it was to create a form for this
weeks assignment. As I explained in an earlier blog post, coming into this
course I thought I had a very good grasp on the internet, computers, privacy,
and all the issues surrounding new technology. I knew I did not know how to
write web pages and, honestly, it has something I have always been scared of.
It is a great skill to have because should someone ever start their own
business, or just want to get their voice and opinion out there a website is a
great way to do that. But, I was always wary of learning how to write web pages
because I thought it must be incredibly hard. This semester we have learned how
to blog, write simple text and even embed pictures and videos on our webpages
but up until this week I didn’t realize how simple creating a website is.
Almost every major website has some sort of form where you enter your username
and password, date of birth, address, etc but I never thought about how those
boxes are created or work. The assignment this week was to create those boxes
and it is amazing how a few simple lines of code can produce something that to
the untrained eye seems so complex on the page. I cannot wait for next weeks
assignment because every week it seems we are stepping up the difficulty and
right now, we are getting into things that can really get eyeballs and create
traffic to a website. I hope everyone in the class is as interested and engaged
as I am. I wish I had taken this course years ago so that I could now be
applying my skills of web design. It is so simple yet so powerful. I have
always enjoyed jobs where you can see the fruits of your labor. Raking a lawn,
building a shed, painting a fence, you can see the before and after and know
that what was not there before is now complete and it was due to your hard work
and perseverance. Web design is no different, what wasn’t there before is now
written and code and shows up on the page.