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Reading 4

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge.
What could yours be?

My website is storage of my life.

In the reading the author mentioned that,

“This web needs to work for people instead of being powered by a small handful of big corporations - like Facebook /Instagram, Twitter and Google. Individuals can steer the web back to its original architecture simply by having a website.”

While I agree that artists should have websites as a platform to express themselves, unless they were they know “how to actually  make a website”, it is definitely going to be difficult to achieve. Because one would have to know how to “code” and that is not an easy thing to learn, and people would have to pay for a server and buy a domain and do so many other things as well. So I think that’s why people have turned more towards big-corporation ran platforms or use templates. So does an artist need to hand-code their website to truly express their individuality and preserve the original structure on the web? Could there be an alternative way for artists to create websites without having to hand-code? Recently Microsoft created a software where the AI would interpret sketches into HTML code. However, while this could be expressing a person’s individuality, it is also a byproduct of a big corporation. Would this still be considered as a handmade web? 

I think as a Communication Design student, we learn how to code a website, but I think we haven’t really learned how to “actually  make a website”. Like how the internet is different from the web, how does the web connect to the server, and how does one find a route to another website? When we’re on the web somehow everything magically happens, but I feel like as a someone who codes, it would be nice to learn the fundamentals as well. Thus, we would know the web is structured and what we need to do to create our own website and publish it online to be shared with everybody.