My fourth day at SAS was spent in web design! There I started by talking with one of the managers of the website, and she explained to me some of the difficulties in making sure the American SAS website was well-coordinated with all of the international SAS branch websites. I met with another person who was responsible for that coordination, and it was very interesting to see the different types of avenues through which messages had to be sent. In the afternoon, I met with an individual whose primary responsibility was managing the SAS intranet’s websites. She showed me some of the tools used to edit the website and even set up a sample site for me to play around with the tools on. It was cool to see the systems used by SAS to create web content and be able to actually mess with the tools first-hand. Before this day, I always assumed that web design was far more technical. However, despite its technical aspects, I learned about how aesthetic decisions also have to be made when it comes to web design, and how there is an entire department for that as well. Overall, I learned a lot, and look forward to the rest of my rotations!
