The web needs fluent audio
We treat audio in an old fashioned way. It’s time to innovate!
Anyone designing for the web needs to have some serious skills in HTML, CSS and Javascript. Being just a Photoshop expert is no longer enough. But why is it that it looks like if only graphical designers are involved in design for the web? Isn’t it time that audio should be designed and treated in the same way as text and images on the web?
HTML, the language of the web, is a markup language. It uses markers so a web browser can interpreted how the text should be presented on a webpage. Therefore titles, paragraphs and other parts of the text can be changed without changing the actual text itself but only by changing the representation of it using HTML.
It goes beyond the scope of this article to explain what CSS and Javascript exactly does. Think of it as additional tools for HTML which helps to represent the content of a webpage in a better way.
If you’re reading this text on your smartphone the above picture might be resized to a smaller version. And the font of the text will be of a smaller size too. On an iPad it may look slightly bigger. This is what we call responsive design, design that changes the way in which the content will be presented in different kind of browsers and display sizes.
