I Is Smart: Web Design

I liked to think I had a handle on things like wielding the internet as my ultimate tool. To be whoever I wanted to be, do whatever I choose, and get away with anything – even creating poorly designed websites.

Well, some of those things are very true.

I want to introduce my attempt at designing a website using CSS, a course I enrolled in at Shaw Academy.

I understand the language of computers. I know enough to destroy the bastards when it goes beyond its functional abilities, “spaz-out,” some say, and configure it, modify, and bend it until it breaks to make it whole again. This is called the art of hardware configuration or a “Bachelors In Technology” that hangs proudly on my Mother’s wall in her home.

I always thought that was a broad title for a diploma, and it didn’t even nearly cover programming, the base for learning how to design websites. So I jumped at the opportunity to further my previous college studies to know what all the cool nerds were learning while I smoked mary in the parking lot and ace calculus.

As with all the courses on Shaw Academy, it’s all pre-recorded lectures that you can go back to in your leisure to refresh or work on a part you’re not understanding. I knew I had some handle on the subject, so I wasn’t even about that three steps back nonsense. Then Module 2 dropped a bomb on me. As stated, the lectures are pre-recorded; well, this lecture was a different professor from the first going on about things I could barely understand.

I empathized with this issue because the site was in its early stages, and I had already gotten my lifetime membership (at a steal), so I had to discontinue my journey down the path of designing websites. I learned some things that I will honestly never use only if I were in a jam, help out an associate, or grab something from page inspection.

So please, enjoy the “website” I created for the Web Design course I chose at Shaw Academy. Not all of the pages came out perfect, and I gleefully admit that I did not know what the fuck I was doing wrong. In the end, I didn’t want you to hire me anyway to design your website.

I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing.

The link to Shaw Academy, for your consideration