I taught myself most of my webdesign skills. HTML, layout, and CSS. I'm fairly decent, but have avoided the programming aspect like the plague.
There's also rules about what font you use for labeling different features (like water bodies versus countries versus cities), for titles, for legends, etc. It's really interesting. Or at least, it's interesting when you can change fonts on a computer as opposed to doing it by hand. I imagine I'd feel different if I had to redo the entire legend on a map by hand because I used the wrong font or font size.
I also know how to letter like an architect. Architects have a type of lettering which is used on blueprints to be uniform. It's one of those totally useless life skills I acquired while getting something else.
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Date: 2009-02-08 12:39 am (UTC)There's also rules about what font you use for labeling different features (like water bodies versus countries versus cities), for titles, for legends, etc. It's really interesting. Or at least, it's interesting when you can change fonts on a computer as opposed to doing it by hand. I imagine I'd feel different if I had to redo the entire legend on a map by hand because I used the wrong font or font size.
I also know how to letter like an architect. Architects have a type of lettering which is used on blueprints to be uniform. It's one of those totally useless life skills I acquired while getting something else.