Comments on: Amateur, expert, and in between… http://www.webbmedia.net/2007/09/12/amateur-expert-and-in-between/ Thoughts on digital media, communication, education, and technology Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: ID Grad Student http://www.webbmedia.net/2007/09/12/amateur-expert-and-in-between/#comment-53638 ID Grad Student Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:15:03 +0000 http://www.cultivating.us/?p=271#comment-53638 In your post you state: ... does the whole big world of creating art, objects, communication, etc. for the web seem overwhelming? Or does it seem touch-of-a-button easy as all the message-creator needs to do is learn to exploit existing tools? Which is it? Or can it be both? As someone who is just skimming the surface of web based tools in my student/professional life, my answer is both. As I learn about creating my web page for class, I have a better concept of the underlying structure and evolution of web design, but my design skills for the web are woefully inadequate. I have used the "touch-of-a-button" easy tools to create web-based materials, but I struggle with finding the way to bridge the knowledge gap between my paint-by-numbers basic web page I created for class to the more attractive items I have developed with ease. For lack of a better word at the moment, I guess you could say I feel unfulfilled. In your post you state:

… does the whole big world of creating art, objects, communication, etc. for the web seem overwhelming? Or does it seem touch-of-a-button easy as all the message-creator needs to do is learn to exploit existing tools? Which is it? Or can it be both?

As someone who is just skimming the surface of web based tools in my student/professional life, my answer is both. As I learn about creating my web page for class, I have a better concept of the underlying structure and evolution of web design, but my design skills for the web are woefully inadequate. I have used the “touch-of-a-button” easy tools to create web-based materials, but I struggle with finding the way to bridge the knowledge gap between my paint-by-numbers basic web page I created for class to the more attractive items I have developed with ease. For lack of a better word at the moment, I guess you could say I feel unfulfilled.

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