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Preamble

During this session you built a web site. Fast. I asked you to consider numerous factors in determining the design, content and usability of your site. Concurrently you learned formatting languages, software, and confronted endless hidden factors that affected the decisions you made in building the site.

Approaches

In your designer manifesto I ask that you provide a critical, honest (brutally so if possible) account of the significant decisions and judgments you made in the process of designing and building your web site. I would like you to show, by referring to specific elements of your web site and of your design process, where you made significant decisions and judgments and to analyze accordingly their strengths and weaknesses. In so doing, I ask that you go beyond simple justifications such as: "If I had more time ..."or "If I knew more about CSS..." Rather, I want you to think like a designer (rather than a consumer) — knowing that there are no perfect solutions.

In providing a critical account of your decision-making process, I ask also that you provide and analyze norms, guidelines or advice as to how one learns, or ought to learn, how to design a web site.

Ultimately, I would like you to consider the following question: What has learning how to design on the web taught you about how to communicate on the web?

Due: Please post to the appropriate forum on the wiki by midnight on July 2.
Length 500- to 750-words.