Zach Saucier
Front-end web developer; specialist in web animations and user interaction.
Why do I need to know code?
What is possible?
The web is awesome.
- Anyone can publish
- It's cheap to build things
- Everyone has it
- Having many copies is cheap
- It gives you design super powers
(40%)
You don’t have to be a developer.
...but you need some idea of what is possible/relatively easy to do.
Purposes of the Web
- Relationships
- Information
- Transactions
- Entertainment
What we want the Web to be
What the Web is
Unique characteristics about the Web
- Media
- Dynamic content
- Fit to screen
- Cross platform
- Animatable
Modern
Capabilities
Design
The purpose, planning, or intention that exists or is thought to exist behind an action, fact, or material object.
In other words, it's being intentional.
The web needs you.
Developers need you.
I need you.
...but you also need me :)
So what is possible?
What commonalities among sites did you see?
What is different from the types of design you've done before?
Unique characteristics about the web
- Media
- Dynamic content
- Fit to screen
- Cross platform
- Animatable
How the (front-end) web works
HTML (hyper text markup language) = Skeleton
CSS (cascading style sheets) = Skin, hair, etc.
JS (JavaScript) = Muscles
The only way to understand is to do.
This is not an exhaustive course.
Homework?!?
Think of 3 website ideas that may be worth pursuing
My info
hello@zachsaucier.com
Why and what of web dev
By Zach Saucier
Why and what of web dev
The first lesson in my web development crash course. For the full post go to http://zachsaucier.com/blog/blog/2015/09/26/the-why-and-what-of-web-development/
