Rather than spending our afternoon on the patio of Starbucks, we are inside of a DUNKIN DONUTS. I’m slowly trying to convert Michelle to be a Dunkin Donuts believer. So we are seated a booth with our coffees and a box of munchkins.
One of the frustrating things about web development is when clients do not give you content. You can only get so far on a website if you do not know how many images your client has for you to put up, if they have any at all. As well, its hard to type up descriptions of products or services if the client doesn’t give you those either.Basically, all you can do is create a navigation bar and a home page. I point this out because me and Michelle are stuck on two websites, and we can’t go any farther without pictures from the clients. This poses to be very frustrating, because waiting on a client can take a long time, and what makes sense to them may need to be in simpler terms for us or whoever is going to read the website.
The first half of our day was spent watching the news and I designed some graphics for becoming an ambassador for Fundanoodle. I really enjoy making graphics, and I think that’s the part of my major I like the most. I enjoy website design a lot, but sometimes it can get so tedious working on multiple pages. I am also slightly confused by plug-ins. I never understand when I’m supposed to use them. Michelle said they aren’t used for blogs much, but more for e-commerce and media sites. I also find it so odd how in the real world people use WordPress, but in the classroom our teachers show us how to code only by hand. I find coding by hand an invaluable ability, but it’s very odd that they aren’t preparing us for what people actually do in the real world.
Also, the more I’ve been working this summer, the more I’ve realized that you can be in practically any major and still do something design related. The amount of time and stress that goes in to being a graphic design major at Winthrop is unbelievable. But yet all someone has to do is read a couple books on how to use Photoshop or Illustrator, and they’ll be able to crank out images and logos. In hindsight, maybe this is an exaggeration. I have been taking computer and design classes for six years now, and I know some people who cannot figure out how to crop pictures in Photoshop, or even lighten an image on their phone! So there is a chance I am somehow ahead of the game and that is why this stuff seems easy.