Section 5: The Web

When i coauthored Digital Foundations in 2008, it made sense to develop chapters on basic HTML and CSS authorship using Adobe Dreamweaver and motion graphics development in Flash. At that time, not all universities offered complete “web design” or “net art” courses, so students were left to learn the basics in other foundations-level digital courses. In 2013, as I’m assembling this section, I’ve had to make some decisions about how to introduce the web to students and readers at a foundational level without taking on more than I can pack into three chapters. Much has changed in five years. Now, many schools, including some high schools, offer courses dedicated to the creation of content for the web. With the advent of HTML5 ...

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