Assignment 2 - A Dao of Web Design

Alright, I will admit that when I first started reading this article, I had absolutely no idea what John Allsopp was trying to say. Piglet, Pooh, I thought this might become a story about Winnie the Pooh and his friends. I also had no idea why he was referring to Tao Te Ching either and how it applied to web design or the internet. I guess that is why you have to read the whole article to get the big picture.After reading and re-reading, you can see how television and other mediums have shaped web design.

The Internet, web design, it had to start somewhere. Allsopp is right when he says "the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility” newspapers limits us. A blog allows us to control what we want to say, what size we want people to read it in.Our blogs are who we are. In my opinion, I am writing this blog, so that it is easy to read and understand as well as writing it in a size that is easy on the eyes. In a newspaper, we are forced to read the way it is written. There is anything wrong with that, but with a blog, I find that we have much more freedom.

We can make a web page or blog anything we want it to be.I never really thought about what we pages look like. Normally, I go to the web page and get whatever information I need and that is it. Now, I see that people take time with the fonts and the colours. Looking at my blog page, I wanted something that would like to look at. I didn't even realize how big a deal that plays when people do their own web pages. The way a person lays out a webpage and style of font they use is a reflection of themselves.

Essentially, we have some control over blogs and websites, we must also think about other people as well. Allsopp says that we should be flexible and by putting that into our minds, everyone can enjoy reading a blog and searching the web. I still don't get what Tao Te Ching has to do with the web, but then again I was never that good at philosophy. However, looking at the quotes that Allsopp used, I can see how some of it can apply to web design as well as blogs.