Website Workshop Postscript

Last Saturday saw CuriousWorks hosting its first workshop at Randle st, a workshop clearly focused on really defining and explaining the basic building blocks of web design by writing html code. Slammed into an intense four hours, participants with no prior experience of HTML found themselves creating web pages from scratch, hand-coding everything. Bona fide web pages were created with not only text (which is hard enough! seeing the formal nature of the code in question marks the first abstract leap) but also hyperlinks, photos and embedded audio and video!

I have been reflecting on how difficult this must be initially for people with no such experience. What Peter and Elias taught over four hours would take weeks in a university course and the workshop mirrored some of teaching that Peter and Elias have performed at UNSW and COFA.

Someone dedicated can explain to you in an hour what it would take a week to learn yourself. For me, this is part of the purpose of these workshops, to provide a structured environment in which everyone can learn from specialists. Below are some of the pictures from the workshop, I can’t wait for the next one!