At the February 28 workshop that was jointly organized by the Association for Computing Machinery and the School of IT & Computing, students learned how they can design a website.
Member of ACM, Yola Chapter, and Instructor in the School of IT & Computing, Alexey Vedishchev, was the facilitator of the two-hour workshop. A second session of the workshop took place on March 6.
Over 50 members from the university community attended the workshop, the most being first-year students who are registered in CIE 111 (Introduction to Computers & Computing).
It was a Beginner 101 workshop as the facilitator ensured that he introduced the concept to the understanding of the audience many of whom were non-computer majors.
According to Mr. Vedishchev, the workshop is an introduction to the simplest way of making people create stuff using a computer. "You can create your website. You know we are all users of this website. As a young generation, you will like to create your website. And website design is one easy way to start doing something on your own."
He said most people consume stuff rather than create.
“The workshop was also to make students know that they too can create stuff for others to consume.”
He defined Web Designing as the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including information architecture, user interface, site structure, navigation, layout, colors, fonts, and imagery.
“All of these are combined with the principles of design to create a website that meets the goals of the owner and designer. While the terms web designing and web development are often used interchangeably, web designing is technically a subset of the broader category of web development.”
Workshop Highlights include: How the Web works, Basics of Web development, HTML page structure, Text formatting, Web page layout, Embedding Images & Media, Lists, Tables & Forms, Cascade Styling Sheets.
One of the attendees, a Software Engineering major, Mofiyinfoluwa Adebayo, said the motivation to attend was from one of her instructors who convinced her that it would be worth the time as they would treat a topic in the future where the skills taught would be relevant.
Reported by Omorogbe Omorogiuwa