I realized that I’ve been MIA from my posts the past couple of weeks. Last week was because I went on vacation with my family in Massachusetts, and since I’ve come back I’ve been avoiding my computer when I’m not at work. I’ve also been keeping my phone on silent so I’m not distracted by it buzzing when I get a Twitter notification or someone said something in a group text. And honestly? I’ve been so much happier not being harried by the digital world.
I know that can seem sort of weird, since my major and future career is so intertwined with having a digital identity. But I like the part of the digital world where I can design. I don’t technically have to use the product that I design, but I just enjoy making the beauty of artwork in a digital form, one that more people appreciate nowadays. Few people go to museums anymore to look at paintings, but almost everyone is on some type of social site, and that is where I want to put my artwork.
My goal is to create art and content that is appreciated in this day and age. To me, artwork can be a website, an advertisement, a business card, anything that you make and desire to be aesthetically pleasing. That is what I like about the digital world. I do not care as much for having my Facebook feed filled with political arguments. That I would be happy without.
Well today I changed my website (again). The hardest part about coding for me is that I am never satisfied. I always want to tweak something, change a color scheme, add another widget, theres always more that can be done. And so, I spent most of today simply changing the home page. Honestly my mind can’t think in a straight line even if I wanted it to.
I am supposed to take VCOM 262 this upcoming fall, and it’s a course in web design. But truthfully, after my internship, I’ve learned no one codes from the beginning anymore. I like writing HTML and CSS. I enjoy watching the site build up, each page be added, moving around images that seem to have a mind of their own. I wonder if that’s what they’ll be teaching in the class, or if they’ll teach WordPress(which I would prefer since it seems to be the method people in the industry use).