December 6th

I just read Frabby and Zoey's posts and their concerns remind me of my own. The whole final project process, for me, has been an expedition into the unknown. Certainly, Dreamweaver has presented a lovely set of concerns. For awhile, I really couldn't figure out how to double space my text. The frustrating part was that I knew I should be working on content, but I kept finding myself obsessing over the little formatting technicalities. For those of you who are working, or have worked, with Dreamweaver, you know that you can make a split screen where the top half shows the computer programming language and the bottom half is your actual workspace. I find it strange that, in the process of creating each page on Dreamweaver, you are generating a text that, a lot of the time, especially for amateurs, you don't understand.

With this in mind, I, like the others, find a newfound perspective on some of the online material we've read. When putting something online, while the format may not necessarily help the author's point, the format may hinder, or significantly change their final product. I'm not saying that authors don't worry about formatting in printed texts, but, personally I see a huge difference when text goes online. What happens when authors are devoting a significant portion of their time to programming and formatting instead of writing?

Also, what happens when you are writing one thing and the computer is writing another (which is what happens on Dreamweaver)? To me, it's a little disconcerting. I feel like the computer is smarter than me and, when I want it to do something, I have to figure out the program's language in order to make it do it.