This class gave me a solid grounding in the concepts of design as they apply to the web and modern media. I got a good understanding of Photoshop and built some new skills which will be very helpful with photo manipulation either for personal projects or web design. I liked how the class built up to the final project where you were able to exploit your new skills and get a feel for modern web building tools, both direct and online (web1.0 and web2.0).
The two websites I built (Expressions 4.0 vs. weebly.com) came out looking quite different. Using the templates available is the biggest reason for the differences, since they differed and were the basis for the sites. Expressions allows a lot more leeway in terms of design and development, and Weebly allows a very streamlined method of drag n dropping all of your content right into place. It doesn't have as much flexibility (though there is an area to add custom HTML), but that's not really the point here...it's set up for the easiest experience to a passable site, and it does that very well.
My initial storyboard actually ended up to be pretty much on target...my content and sitemap stayed the same, the only real differences being slight in relation to the template i chose. The Weebly site was a little further off, stylistically, but it still matched up w/ content and navigation.
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