I am helping a friend get his first webpage/blog online using a wordpress.org self hosting management system.
The link is here: http://www.drewdonnay.com
It has been an excellent learning/collaborative experience. It started when Drew asked me in a facebook chat if I could help him code a webpage, it moved to a few sit-down sessions and hopefully will continue online via something like tinychat where we can take advantage of remote access.
After watching Chris Lott's presentation on uStream live last night, thanks to a tweet from David Truss, I can't help but imagine that I am working on the design of this page like the tailor who tells his customers to arrange their body in strange positions to fit an oddly designed suit. That is, we have a vision for what the webpage should look like, but don't have the design skills to accomplish them...so we arranged the content to fit the design of the theme.
It makes me wonder what it is that I am truly learning. Can I say that I have experience with CSS, PHP and mySQL now because I have tweaked a couple of attributes in a stylesheet or a page template? Am I learning something by just being exposed to the code? Will I ever even need to know the code anyway?
I imagine that someday it is possible that I teach a web development class. Translate this as you may... Will I need to know the code, or will my students be satisfied adjusting their content to fit the form?
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