Our professor explained on the first day that this class would cause us to bang our head against a wall numerous times a day.  Initially I thought she was simply employing a scare tactic in order to dwindle the numbers of classmates.  Sadly she was correct.  From first glance, web-design seems like it should be fairly simple.  The organization seemed rational and order, leaving me with the only difficulty in picking out the color and design scemes.  It sounds like I’m picking out furiniture for a new home.  How quaint!

 If the scarcasm isn’t coming off strong enough to this point just let me know.  I can always go back and edit this post  (I love the internet).  Little rules and settings are what can frustrate the novice designer.  Let’s look at an example to demonstrate what I mean.  I’m guessing that many people int he class had difficulty floating the image.  Wyke-Smith makes it sound so easy.  you basically break up a page into columns whereby you determine the sizes of the columns.  So far so good.  All elements total 100%, and the page looks nice.  Yet I made the fatal flaw of neglecting to add my margins and borders before I completed the float.  Thus sending my text on the right side tumbling down underneith the left float.  Eventually I realized mymistake, but that was an hour later.  I later realized that my issue was I have become so accustomed to powerpoint and other Microsoft product design rules, that I became pretty aggitated when I was forced to learn a new system.   It was quick a reality check to how much I was a slave to Windows.