HTML Tutorial
- I don't think I've coded in HTML since middle/high school (my web design career was killed by a well timed cease and desist letter from J.K. Rowling's lawyers...no really, it was). That being said, this was a nice little tutorial - tough to read from beginning to end in one sitting (lots of info) but super clear and well written.
HTML Cheatsheet
- I'm probably more likely to actually refer back to this than I am the whole tutorial. Clear, simple, concise.
CSS Tutorial
- I don't really have any experience with css, although I've seen it as an option on a number of websites that I've done mini designs for. This is one that I really have to go back and read more about this - as good as the html tutorial was, I think the css isn't quite as clear, probably because it's a bit more complicated.
Beyond HTML
- Basically this article looks at the challenges of creating/working with a CMS (content management system). It is actually fairly interesting to see the problems that were faced not only creating the system, but then migrating course guides to a different system (in this case from a non-uniform mishmash of front page created guides to a universal style sheet).
Muddiest Point
- Telnet: I know sort of what it is, I've even used it in the past, but I don't really understand how one works...Is it just two computers talking to eachother without really sending data, or do they send data, just in a slower/less secure manner?
3 comments:
Wow, a cease and desist letter! I had some copyrighted material on an old web page that I made in 1997. When I made it I had no idea about the idea of copyright, I was in High School. Within the past year or two I deleted the pages, when I started to get worried that I would get a letter in the mail.
The J.K. Rowling Story sounds interesting. I thought that the tutorials were very helpful. I had never looked at designing a web page before. (When I was earning my BS degree the only computers available used DOS. There was no Widows, etc. No one had a computer in their dorm room.) I liked how you could change the examples and see the effect throughout this tutorial. I also liked the CSS tutorial. Sometimes further information is not revealed until you've become frustrated with the first. I'm looking forward to designing my first web page!
Haha, I would really like to hear the rest of the J. K. Rowling story! I actually hadn't used HTML before this class, but I'm really glad that something is making me learn it!
Do you have other experience with web design?
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