Admittedly, it’s been a little quiet here on my blog, with my previous posting taking place about three weeks ago. It’s not that I haven’t had topics to blog about, it’s just that I haven’t really had the enthusiasm to blog. Of course, another reason is that I’ve been lazy but not as much as you think.

Now that it’s been about a year since I’ve graduated from university, I’ve considered getting a Masters degree but have held off on it in an attempt to cater to my web design interests.

During my last year of my Computer Engineering degree, I started working with the Ruby on Rails framework and began to appreciate web design. That appreciation has stuck with me and I’ve had some time to enrich myself with some excellent web-design resources on the internet. I don’t want this to be a big post about what web design is or how passionate I am about it, I think it would be good to offer some background into it since I’ve brought it up.

Oftentimes, the terms web designer and web developer are used interchangeably. They are not the same thing. A web designer is someone who’s concerned with typography, layout, colour, usability and other such things whereas a web developer deals mainly with how a web application functions. It’s a pretty big difference and although I’m interested in developing web applications, I’ve found that my real interest lies in web design. I love reading about typography, layout, colour and usability and would like to get to know more about it. If you haven’t heard of these terms as they’re applied to the web, don’t worry, I intend on writing a post about each one of them at a later time. For now, I just wanted to get something on this blog since it’s been so long!

By the way, I’ve found some great web design resources over the past few days and intend on sharing them but in the meantime if you have a favourite site, don’t hesitate to let me know in the comments!