What Does it Mean to be a Designer for Today's Wide World of the Web? West Memphis AR

Posted by : James Stanger, Ph.D | Sat, Mar 8 2008 | 11:03:19
Tags : web developer, website design,Ajax, internet,  

This past July, I found myself in Richmond, Virgina, conducting a focus group for a group of Web technology instructors. They were from the state, and had been teaching XHTML, blogging, and e-commerce for the Certified Internet Web Professional (CIW) Web design program for about two years. We had just finished up the second day of the group, and the session had been quite a bit of fun. We had shared ideas not only about how to do Web design, but also how to teach it to students in an entertaining way.

As I was getting ready to leave, Lee Baber, a secondary education instructor from Virginia, took the opportunity to introduce me to one of her students. This student had shown some real promise as a Web designer, and Lee wanted me to take a look at some of the sites he had created. Sure enough, the student did, in fact, show some real promise. The sites he showed me weren't comprised of Flash (a common failing of sites created by young designers), they worked in multiple browsers, and even the text on the site was clearly written. Even though I was a bit tired, I felt...

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