Marginilia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document.They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, or illuminations.
Definition Source: Wikipedia
There are many fantastic blogs on all facets of web design and development. I am grateful for these, because anything you ever need to know and even stuff you didn’t know you need to know can be found so easily. There is just an endless and infinite amount of information to be had for free. THANK YOU INTERNET!!!
So in setting up this blog I have to ask myself in the face of such enormous competition what could I, a lowly web designer, have to offer? True, I am knowledgeable and I have gifts, but what can I share that hasn’t already been shared to death? Here is what I want to bring to the proverbial table:
- Unique perspective.
Yes, no one is going to see it just like me. I have to draw on my artistic experience here. I remember drawing classes where 5 of us would be drawing the same tree, but when it came time to look at the finished drawings it was really hard to tell that it was the same tree, because every artist had a different spin on it. That is what I am looking to share with you, dear reader, my own unique spin on the world of web design. I do not want to regurgitate anything that you have already read in 50 other posts (unless I can do it in a totally unique way).
- Notes from the margins.
In the days before internet and television, readers would often write notes in the margins. This practice still goes on today and has even jumped into the digital arena. MIT recently developed Annotation Studio, which allows for digital annotation of works, in order to foster more engagement and connection to text, and liberates students of their inhibitions of writing. You can read more about how MIT’s Annotation Studio empowers readers and writers. This approach is great inspiration for writing liberating comments, ideas, reactions, questions and thoughts for any subject – for me, specifically, that approach liberates me to the world of web design. I am not going to try to teach you HTML and CSS, many others can do that superbly. But I may have my own marginalia to add to the process which I hope you will find enriching and interesting.
