my presentation
Yeah, I made a presentation.
I presented yesterday to a class of art students on all things web design, and I called it “Introduction to Web Design” 
. And I liked it and it was good. 
It was a small class over at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The presentation I created was recieved with much love and appreciation. The questions that the students asked were along the lines of:
- “What do you mean when you say that IE breaks the code?”
–> you know the answer to that one
- “What are the top browsers I should test on?”
–> the biggies on Mac and PC: IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, MacSafari (if possible Linux Konqueror) - “What are the steps I need to take to get webspace/domain name?”
–> buy domain name; buy webspace; learn FTP; voila - “What’s bandwidth?”
–> every time your webpage is visited it’s downloaded; monthly limit based on your host; depending on how you show video, it can be a huge drain on your monthly limit - “Do I have to pay to get X search engine to crawl my site?”
–> no, it’s free; pay if you want top, highlighted results or to be placed as ads - “How can my website make money for me?”
–> ads; sell your artwork (big discussion on shopping carts vs. PayPal)
It was so exciting to talk ab/t web standards and all that I’m passionate about. It felt great to explain why learning to code by hand is highly important before jumping into Dreamweaver (I explained that Dreamweaver has so many features and widgets that if you don’t know what the code means, you won’t know what it’s doing, why it did A or B, etc. etc). I touched on other important topics like: SEO, Accessibility and explained that these are tools that you need to be introduced to so once your familiar with HTML and CSS what the next steps are to take. I also explained the difference between stealing code and learning from and changing code.
I hope they call me in again next year. 
