If you have thought about building a website for your child, or
letting them have a go, here are some of my thoughts…
Firstly, there is a lot of maths behind web design. There’s the calculations of the layouts,
shapes, working out ratios – Golden Ratio
and Golden Rectangle being one of those.
It’s quite fascinating and I think maths is beautiful, through maths we can create the most beautiful of images and beautiful images are key to a good
web design after all.
Most of us think of maths as the opposite of creative, due to the fact
that it’s precise and requires logic perhaps. However, it is because its geometrical shapes,
that are so perfectly and precisely measured and created in maths, what we
achieve is truly beautiful – that is my opinion anyway.
Using websites to teach science, or present an idea to show how
something works is an incredibly important resource. Science is a very practical subject and
websites allow us to see things in 3D.
They allow the user to interact and see science in a way that can be
difficult in the real world, making diagrams come to life, something that just cannot
be done in a book.
If you want to know a bit more about webpages and how they are made
check out the BBC’s page: How are web pages
made?
But who has the time to create these wonderful websites, learn all the
html and come up with designs that will impress your audience quickly? Well, unless you are a whizz at computer
programming with an artistic eye this might be very difficult or time
consuming. There is a lot of
maths in programming in general.
Websites use html mostly, unless you a whizz at it, it can
be a slow process which is where WYSIWYG editors, otherwise known as website builders,
help. Here are 10 of the best that you
can check out here: http://www.top10bestwebsitebuilders.com/
I'm not saying that learning to code, learning computer programming, is pointless. I think it's really important for kids to learn, my girls love using Scratch and my eldest has taken an interest in HTML very recently too. Saying that, it's still good to know all your options too and, if you are in a hurry, or you're not ready to do all that coding yet - it's definitely worth looking into Website builders.
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