another end

So the end of another quarter of school is here. I made 3 A's and 1 B. The B was from my web design class, which I do not care about, but it's part of the curriculum for anyone in any type of graphic design course. And, as I am majoring in Advertising, it's considered a graphic design class. We had a mid-term practicum where we were given a sketch and told to write the code for it using html and css. Well, I would have done a lot better, I believe, if I had a better teacher. The way it was explained to me from the beginning made no sense. So I failed the test. I say fail like I made a 60 or something…no. I made a 31 (that's out of 100 points). For our final, we had to turn in a 5 page website designed from sketches we turned in previously. I asked my friend Brad to help me. When he arrived to help, I had already most of the html written and he said it wasn't that bad. Now I had to write the css, which is what adds the "pretty" to the page (margins, backgrounds, letter size…) The way he explained everything made perfect sense. Why couldn't my teacher do that?? Anyway, I was able to write all my pages a week ahead of time and turn it in. Everything worked and was set correctly and I was happy with it. I saw my grade on it today. I made an 85 on it. Meh. I don't care, but what makes me upset is that she marked off for something I think is really stupid: my choice of font for the text in my web page. I chose a serif font. I don't remember seeing in the rules anywhere that I couldn't have a serif font, but she marked it as wrong. WTF?? I know most websites these days use sans serif, but there are plenty that use serif and I think they look just fine.

I feel comfortable enough with what I know and understand to design the front-end part of the website, and hand it to a coder and say "ok, here, write this."I'm sure I can find a job where I don't have to code. I need a t-shirt that says "I hate to code".