First off HTML doesn't sound all that exciting. However, when we look at where it has brought us today it takes on a whole new meaning. Learning the beginnings of the HTML code world has given me a greater appreciation for those who love to do this full time and make the different aspects of the web run through it. Now when I look at a web page I look at all of the work that has gone into it and how much simple technology has made things for us.
Due to what went on during the week I didn't have a whole lot of time to get everything researched. From my short and little experience working with the CSS properties I find them really nice to work with. Once I figured out how to slightly manipulate them I found that scructuring my web page was a lot more friendly. Also to be able to put CSS code onto a different file of it's own that is linked to the HTML document was a nice feature to work with to keep things organized and straight. In some aspects I found that it saved a lot fo time to do things that way. Keeping everything I work with on the same standard made things easier to modify and change in groups.
This part of the class is more exciting where we get to see the design and structure of a web site take place. Every time I go to different web sites I can see the difference between the different set-ups and how unique or crummy they are. With what I learned in these tutorials I tried to make my web page flow together with more of an easy appearance on the eye. It's a lot of work and I can see how a lot of people wouldn't like to do this.
As I went through the article I really liked how they broke down the different parts of building a non-boxy looking web page. This round I've been focusing on just keeping my website uniform and as clean as possible. Seeing the different formats made me want to go through more than just a few of my web pages. I really like have the article as a reference to some of the neat things that they showed.
After hearing that web designers used to use tables to format the whole web page it really blew me away. Just trying to set up a simple calandar was hard for me. I really can't see designing a whole web page. I thought that article was interesting, especially where the guy went through and broke down website development with Tables and then with CSS. I can understand a little bit of how working with CSS would be better than tables and having a more simple and universal control over your own website. I liked the articles comparisons the most.
This article wasn't as friendly or as interesting to read as the Tables vs. CSS article. It was very mechanical and not very human. Specificity I understand to a certain point, but then there are areas that I get lost in and then I just fiddle around with the code until I figure something out that works. Part of what would help me is if I used this site for reference to understand when to be specific and how.