Lab 12 Reflection Journal

Thawsif Mursalin

 Digital Design

Lab 12

Reflection Journal

My First JavaScript!

          

       

         How exciting! We finally wrapped up our unit on CSS and we are now moving ahead to JavaScript programming! Lab 12 was our first ever JavaScript on Dreamweaver. What we had to do in this lab was to create an “interactive button” in which when clicked on, will show a hidden secret message of the website. Additionally we had to create text boxes that you could type in. These text boxes were document forms and alert form types. The text that we had to put for this particular lab was "This is my first ever JavaScript!" or something along the lines of first every JavaScript code.

            I personally added a button for the hidden message encoded in CSS. I think that CSS is a useful skill to have because it made everything look flashy and nice. My button turned out to be orange but that’s not the only aspect in which I used CSS. I also used CSS in the background image of the JavaScript forms and message box. I used a solid fill color scheme, “Limegreen”. Also I added my own personalized favicon and placed it into the HTML code lining. Finally the navigation bar came so I included the same navigation form 2 projects ago. There were virtually no challenges other than using Camel Case characters, in which I adjusted to rather quickly.

     Learning JavaScript is substantially imperative for impending Web Designers, such as myself because the website might otherwise have no interactive components with the user so that they would enjoy the website to the fullest and so that it is not just a fancy looking website with a couple of buttons. Interaction with the user is key to making a successful website and this is only the first step to being a great Web Designer. I am happy to know that I am learning JavaScript and will most certainly use this for when I am getting a job in the real world with coding.