Is there alot of difficult math involved in Web Design?

Mar 21st, 2010 | By KC | Category: Web Design Courses

I’m meditative about receiving a Web pattern march though in highschool my math skills were never during a tip of a class. Math additionally seems to means me a little stress when it gets unequivocally complicated. we was regularly great during algebra tho. Is this starting to be a fun career for me to demonstrate my beautiful side or am i starting to drown in a math?

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  1. Leo D March 21st, 2010 7:31 am

    I’ll interpret web design as in mostly controlling CSS + some control over the HTML.

    But basically anyone who tells you there are no maths involved either has never tried Web Design or any form of content management, has done so but did it terribly wrong, or doesn’t enjoy maths so they have a bad definition of it.

    Numbers:
    - Lots of numbers involved in web design, eg: positioning, colour coding, layering, box-modelling, &c.

    Negative numbers:
    - Negative margins can make elements bigger and stretch.

    Adding/subtracting:
    - To know if your current box exceeds it’s limits you need to add: horizontal margins + horizontal borders + horizontal paddings + width.

    Percentages:
    - If you want a Web page that expands and contracts with the browser window, you’ll need to learn percentages.

    Unit conversions:
    - Converting static pixels into flexible ems: If you want a 320×160 px image to grow and shrink with 16em text, you need to convert it to 20ems x 10ems.

    Base conversions:
    - You’ll need to learn how to convert from decimal to hexadecimal and back, because hexadecimal is used often for colours beyond the basic sixteen-colour set: If you want a colour that is 255 red and 128 yellow, you need to know that it translates to #ff8000 in hexadecimal colour notation.

    When you get involved in trickier things, eg:
    - Making ECMA-Scripts to extend the usability of your Website,
    - Adding Java classes to make your website even more dynamic,
    - Adding Flash to make your website even more interactive,
    - Adding Server-side technologies to let your website store user data.
    you’ll need to know a bit more than those basic Mathematics.

    Some very tricky designs will ask you to be very good at basic maths.

    But I am a Web Standardista. I work mostly with XHTML, CSS and JavaScript and most of the maths I do are multiplication and division. You should be alright if you’re good at Algebra.

    Actually, what you might find though, is that you have to put accessibility before creativity in Web Design. You have to know how to work with your audience, which could include basically everyone, children and adults, handicapped people, people who aren’t experts with computers, people who are very knowledgeable with computers, &c.

    I hope this helps!

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