Flash critique & web production

I feel as though I’ve come very far in learning about digital media, and I already have a couple of finished assignments to prove it. All of our flash animations have been handed in, but only a couple were shown. I was impressed by the work of everyone else, it seemed that practically the whole class had a good grip on animation. We’ve just begun web production, and all the material is new to me.

The only experience I have with working with HTML’s is when I used to post on public forums, and it demanded you used some HTML codes to convey different fonts. I’m having a hard time following all the logistics behinds HTMLs and memorizing these different codes, so I’m hoping that I break through that hurdle. I did more research on Tim Berners-Lee, the invent of HTML’s, and found out that, during his time at college, he built a computer with only a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old TV, and later was caught hacking computers and was banned from using the school computer.

Ironically, he managed to prove that he was capable of inventing communications technology from scratch and, in later years, innovating upon it, but also that the internet had already developed a strict, confidential line of communication by which, if ever breached, is punishable by arrest. It is amazing to see that internet has come such a long way, from a means of communication in battle to a world wide web ranging from every topic imaginable, all accessible in a fraction of a second.