1. My name is Noelle, I am a ComDes senior (my last semester!)
2. I am taking this class for foundations requirements for my major, wanting to refresh my CS skills since high school. I suppose that also answers #3. In my Computer Science classes, I also learned some Javascript and am currently learning markdown to create a portfolio website with Hugo.
4. I hope to learn how to use CSS, as I've pretty much all but forgotten the language. I preferred stylizing within the same HTMl file back in the day.
5. One key difference that I think designing for screen will be distinct from designing from paper is the existence of hidden elements in a linked webpage, that are still very much part of the 'art piece' but elsewhere and not always in the view of the person on the site, even within the same site given having to scroll down.
I quite like this website by Portuguese Mixed Media artist Hetamoe. I think the aesthetic is very united, despite the design being minimal in the background with white overlaid by icons. As you explore the site, there is a central theme of test printing, anime characters, and philosophy in perzine format.
This Harvard Arboretum site is very pleasant in its structure, strengthening communication through almost magazine style formatting with sidenotes indented off to the side, variable widths and type treatments, and a limitation on style to not overwhelm the reader. The line length and font size is pleasing and not taxing to look at, and the image use to not redundant / each image has a unique purpose.
I love this site by typographer Paul Soulellis, it loads very fast and there is a unified style that denotes the actionable parts of text (buttons) with an outline versus the non-actionable, static text. From this read, one could assume the code of the site is pretty straight forward, but visual interest is not sacrificed because of this, which I find impressive.