paradox.html

A website is a piece of media. An incredibly plastic piece of media, that is able to take form in many different ways. Interactive or static, text or image, but always with the ability to expand and go somewhere else. If I want websites to be an expression of our particular souls, I must accept that some express themselves through more, or without, text. Yet since websites are built on text, we must understand what without text a website can not exist. This creates a paradox of websites being everything but always being text. And not just any text, there is a need for the text underlying a website to be HTML (hyper text markup language) with CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and/or JS (JavaScript) added in. These are markup and programming languages expressed through text. Just like a language they must be learned, and just like a spoken language, learning them is not easy. The translation of text, into a piece of hypermedia is one that not everyone will find intuitive, and I would argue tha

A website is a piece of media. An incredibly plastic piece of media, that is able to take form in many different ways. Interactive or static, text or image, but always with the ability to expand and go somewhere else. If I want websites to be an expression of our particular souls, I must accept that some express themselves through more, or without, text. Yet since websites are built on text, we must understand what without text a website can not exist. This creates a paradox of websites being everything but always being text. And not just any text, there is a need for the text underlying a web