Friday, October 10, 2008

Week 8 Readings

HTML Tutorial:
Great tool! (But at first, I wanted to be annoyed at how much time it was going to take me to look at it.) It was fun to play around with HTML though, as I've always wondered exactly what it is. When I have some free time, I plan to play with it some more.

HTML Cheat Sheet:
Very handy for if I ever become proficient enough in using HTML... otherwise I will meed the whole list 'o instructions...

CSS Tutorial:
Same goes for this as for the HTML Tutorial. I like the CSS a little bit better, but I can't put my finger on why. Oh, wait, it's easier to understand and use than the HTML... (for me, anyway.)

Beyond HTML:
I found it interesting that a university library would allow a hodgepodge of pages of information on its website, like it seemed that the HTML pages were. Maybe I'm missing something. But seeing the real world use of both HTML and CSS was helpful. I also wonder why librarians would be given the task of creating the pages, if they had absolutely no training in how to. It seems like once the university decided to migrate from HTML, much more training was given in the new comtent management.

2 comments:

Alberta said...

I find the time intensive nature of html and css a little daunting, though I would like to experiment with them later. I found a link regarding CSS on Dom's Blog which was really cool--If you google 'CSS Zen Garden' you can get there..it is a beautiful and intriguing site.

Anonymous said...

I agree that the tutorials were fun to play around with and didn't take as much time as I thought they would. I think that the extent to which you plan (or don't plan) on using HTML will determine to what extent you need to learn the details of writing pure HTML. There are programs that can make it really easy to "write" it without "writing" it. It's good to know though,......