Web Design

Week 9 Lecture: Today is week 9 lecture class, lecturer introduce to us a small software application which is Wordpress Plug in. It extedns the features and functions of a WordPress website. WordPress plugins are apps that allow us to add new features and fuctionality to WordPress website, similar to the way mobile apps. Then lecturer teach us on how to find the plugins in WordPress, the plugins can be found on the Plugins > Add New page in the admin sidebar. After that, the plugins can easily find and install the WordPress plugin from the Plugins > Add New page in the admin page. Once successfully find the plugin, can click on "Install Now" and wait for the installation to complete. After lecturer introduce to us whats is wordpress plugin and how to install, lecturer suggest some best wordpress content plugins to us, such as Elementor. Elementor is the most popular page builder plugin of them all. Currently in use on more than 5 million websiters. Another suggestion w...

Week 8 Lecture: At the end of the week 7 lecture, the lecturer talked about Web Content Management System (CMS).CMS is a content management system. It is a software that helps users to create, manage and modify the content of a website without the need for technical expertise. The tutor also introduced WordPress; WordPress is an open source (CMS). It is a popular tool for people who do not have any coding experience and want to create websites and blogs.   WordPress Dashboard Example In addition, the instructor showed a YouTube video on how to use WordPress. The video includes 20 minutes of techniques for using it, which can be learnt in the YouTube video. The instructor also showed some videos on how to make a website and some of the problems you will encounter in making a website. The instructor will teach us how to solve these problems and explain them. All the videos will be posted on Google Classroom for students' reference. In addition, the instructor showed the students some...

Week 7 Lecture: In week 7, the fundamentals of website layout is about balancing aesthetics with practically. A good website layout organizes information so it fits together in an obviuos sequence. It also makes the page visually engaging, guides the user's eyes towards points of interest. It plays a role in branding too, using spacing, alignment and scale in ways. Lecturer say visual hierarchy is a way of styling the design elements for heightened contrast in order to emphasize select pieces of content above others. Reading pattern describe the most common ways users scan pages and re depicted in directional lines. The fold is the line at which a web page is cut off due to the screen size limitations. A grid system is a layout based on rigid measurements and guidelines. White space sometimes claeed negative space, is simply the area of a design without any content-that is, the empty space. Lecturer also talk about the common types of website layouts, first is single column layout...