Writing For The Web: Week 2
If you read this and your name is Jason Nelson you probably expect to find 400 words of enlightening explanation, rhetorical inspiration, and theoretical perception, to why I have chosen this course and what I am hoping to get out of it. Well, to avoid unnecessary disappointments I might as well be quick to say that that will probably not happen in this summary or even anytime soon, but hopefully it will happen by the end of this semester when I expect to have blossomed from a regular Facebook user into a semi professional web designer with inspiration and ambition for a future in the web design industry .
The truth is that I have no prior experience with web designs, or the strange terms, graphics, linkings etc. connected to the whole phenomenon. And honestly I am a bit intimidated by this course since other students who have done it have warned me not to enroll in it as they found it way too complex, hard and incomprehensible to grasp and deliver what is expected in only three short months. One of them has barely survived it and this person is a smart person.
I did some research to find the main purposes for building a website and found that it was for marketing your company (to put it simply – to make money), share ideas or information with others, document your family happenings or to just store files on.
However, to better categorize the purposes and uses of websites, the hosting community has divided web sites into three categories: personal use websites, business websites, and non-profit websites.
After looking at this information I decided that should I ever willingly subject myself to blood, sweat, tears, sleepless nights and mental breakdowns (that’s what I’ve been told happens when you create a website) I would most definitely want to make something out of it for personal gain. So, since I am no good Samaritan who would selfishly submit myself to suffering for a non-profit website, I would probably create a business website.
Look at that, I’m already on my way of deciding what I want to create. The problem is that I am studying MA Journalism and was informed to create a website linked to that and the research I am doing there, but I am more interested of building a business website, like Ebay or something. I want to try something different that is not connected to Journalism at all. I already do three other subjects that are connected and variation never hurt anyone.
So in conclusion, after this “deep” self-reflection, I realise I am not a good Samaritan and have chosen this course for possible personal future gain only. Scary…my illusions about myself are lost forever. However, the heavy burden whether I will be successful in my undertakings or not all falls on the shoulders of Mr W – no one knows why W when first name Jason – Nelson.
Incredible, creating a website course actually made me get to know myself better the very first week. Imagine when the course finishes, I will perhaps have solved all of my personal issues. Maybe the people who warned me about this course were wrong?
