Visual Design Journal by Dayanna Arias

This was my project for the Congressional App Challenge. This app was created to inform everyone of the four main political parties around the World which helps to create their own government. The inspiration of this app was to be able to experience and learn the way governments work. Whether beneficial or harmful, it’s a good way to understand how its roots come. This app’s purpose is to inform people about political parties and how they affect the government. Then use that to construct a campaign that will win or lose the 2020 election.

In this lab, I had to download a bunch of files that were going to help me implement a functionality in my web pages. I had to use the set of core technologies that drive most modern web applications, namely HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. My job was to implement it using the behaviors and functionality using JavaScript and jQuery.  These skills are important to learn because I am learning new things that I can implement on my websites and make them look more professional.

What did you do in the lab? How did you do it? Why are these skills important for a web designer? In this lab we used java script and j query to create simple prompts. I c reated a simple introduction page. I did this by including an  introduction narrative along with an image of me. When you open the page, you get a pop up asking you to do something and all you have to do is keep agreeing with the popup in order to be able to get the page with my introduction. These skills are important because they helped me learn how to use JavaScript and then transfer that to j query. I learned the difference between the two. I also learned that in order to use J Query, I had to download a library and updated it as I go along.