#structure is key

Apple’s new M1 chip - powering a new generation of high-spec consumer products and a bold move away from Intel after a 14-year relationship. 

I’m posting this image as a symbol of a new start in a different capacity - my first contact with Apple in any context as I embrace the world of graphic design, digital art, and creative media programming courtesy of my new relationship with the wonderful team at Griffith College Dublin. After a long stint on Windows I have invested in an M1-powered Mac Mini for this coursework. 

My Windows laptop won’t even open Photoshop or Illustrator! Never used a Mac before but I’m enjoying the learning process and hoping to transition over completely from Windows to Mac over the coming month. Still going back to Windows for the Web Authoring work until I brave the big switch. At least VS Code seems to be a fairly light application and is not bogging the machine down like the Adobe tools.

Week #4 now and the content, intensity, and difficulty has just jumped up a serious notch. Whatever background I once had in xhtml has now been well and truly surpassed as we jumped into more advanced structural areas - a whole raft of new elements, and opening the door on css to come. Found the lab this week very slow going and I had to go back over the instructions again and again to get it set in my head. 

The volume of info is quite high and a lot to process today. For the first time I am feeling nervous, but will plough back into the labs again tomorrow with fresh eyes. What’s keeping me going is the glimpses of what the final product could look like when CSS is introduced - from a wireframe to a basic page with structure, to a pretty page, to a responsive and useful page. Wish it was that simple! Enjoying it though,