Journal Entry 1
Learning Journal 1
First reflect on what you have learned on this chapter. After completing the reflective component, your next task is to begin address answer the following questions based on your research. HTML has seen four revisions, and now we are currently using XHTML 1.1. There has been quite a bit of history over the last few years. Perform some additional research to see how we got where we are today. Identify the problems with early web development. Is there anything that you find particularly interesting? Are there any implications of future changes? Your journal entry should be titled HTML History.
Is most of this tutorial I learned how to link items and create links, also learned how to make images on web pages links, another think I learned was how to add a email address and when the user clicked on it make you email account open to send a email to the person. This also included how to set up links on your web page so when clicked on it would send you to a website. There have been many milestones in the early stages of web development , some of these were beneficial for the developer and some for the user. One would be open source officially started in 1998 freeware took off which gave a lot people more access to programs and hurt the people who were selling it to, examples of programs are Firefox, PHP and word press. Then mosaic released in 1993 that support bookmarking and slick user interface and had the biggest picture support, which was a huge jump n 1993, also PayPal launched which was the biggest way to transfer money online. Then Firefox launched in 2003, which competed against internet explorer, which had 94% of browser market. These are just a couple milestones in Html history. I found particularly interesting that most of these programs and updates just recently came out in the last decade so who know what will change in the next decade.
Journal Entry 2
Learning Journal
First reflect on what you have learned in this tutorial. After completing the reflective component, your next task is to begin address the following topic: This is your first web development course; by the end of this course you should have a solid foundation in HTML and CSS. What is your current perception of web design, where do you think it is headed? What kinds of occupations are available to web developer and what do you want to do with your knowledge? Your journal entry should be titled Web Development Perceptions.I learned in this tutorial what excalty is the World Wide Web and learned the basic of XHTML. Some of the basics are most tags need a open and a close, example would be . I also learned what all goes inside a web page like from !doctype which is a document type definition and also a meta tag which show what content text is used so people in different countries know what keyboard was used to type this and author of the web page. Then we learned just general info like how to include comments and add paragraphs and images. What is my current perception of web design after this tutorial it’s all pretty straight forward the difficult part I’ve noticed are all the special characters knowing all of them and their use for is pretty difficult. Where do I think its heading? I think more programs will come out to help make web design easier there already companies who can make website real cheap and easy for users. Occupations out there are web site designers for companies who update and fix their websites to meet there needs. What do I want to do with my knowledge design and maintain websites for companies or do server hosting.
Journal Entry 3
CSS History
For your last discussion topic I had you investigate the history of HTML, in doing so you probably found that CSS has been a major player in web design in recent years. Why is this? What is so beneficial about using style sheets? I want you to define the purpose of HTML and the purpose of CSS and their relationship to each other. Along with HTML, CSS has also seen a few revisions. What version of CSS is currently supported by most modern web browsers, what additions are expected in the next release? Lastly, what are your personal feelings at this time concerning HTML and CSS?CSS changed many things in the recent years because it changed the style sheet language, which changed the look and formatting of websites. It so beneficial because it provides a set of styles rules that are used in HTML and XHTML, which then separates the web content in formatting and presentation of the website information. HTML and CSS are incorporated by how it separates the web content from formatting and presentation information. The latest version of CSS is 2.1 is allowed by web browsers. On the next upcoming of CSS there are a few updates like CSS namespaces, background and borders, multi-columns layout ECT. My person thoughts about it are good easy to understand and make sense of.
Journal Entry 4
Web Design
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is an interesting article that is on the SitePoint website. There are seven pages to this article/tutorial make sure you read them all. This article is about the web design, in this class we have not really touched on design at all. These are some basic considerations to keep in mind as you progress to become competent web designers. I want you to comment on what you took away from the article. Was it worth your while? What did you find most interesting? What did you find least interesting?After reading the article, I found a few things very interesting, I like how it says figure out your client before you start design figuring out what they like and what their business is about. Also a big part of it is to figure out who their audience is from young to old you can design something that will be Appling to that crowd. In addition, I liked the idea if they have competitors see what their website looks like and not exactly steal from it but make it better and improve it. Also content is everything, you need people to also refer and come back to the website, and if they can remember it and want to come back this is defined as a good design. Least interesting was all the talk about asymmetrical balance like it makes sense like who want to read a lot of stuff unless you’re looking for information or doing a report so short and simple is the way to go, but that overall commonsense, but also depends on who your making the website for.
Out of the box
I took from this article a couple new terms like grids and wireframes how they can help with defining more information helping organization and unifying a series. These three things are used to plan a sites grid, which is very helpful information. I did this at the end, so the section about starting out design was boring and all review for me. Then the rest of the article was about adding stuff to your website, which was all review since I did this at the end instead of the beginning. Then it talked about abstraction, which was new about change the layout, header, and footer to make it snazzier.
Tables vs. CSS
is a great article that takes you as the reader on a daunting journey back in time...just a short time ago. This articles gives you a little more history about how we as web designers abused tables for personal gain...that being a stellar design. Who cared about accessibility and unnecessary markup...our sites looked great. It then goes on to show you how the same task is achieved in CSS. In order for you to appreciate where we are you need to understand where we have been; I have to say I like where we are now...kudos to CSS. I want you to comment on what you took away from the article. Was it worth your while? What did you find most interesting? What did you find least interesting?
Yah the article was good just explain the changes that came with CSS, it made it quicker, and nicer looking. Then it rather took away from tables but from the article, not many people like the tables anyways so they were not really missed. Then is just gone into detail about designing your site, after details of making his site, he complained about all the code that was needed and losing place. Which has happened to me to lots of code can make it difficult to keep place of everything. After everything it was a good read to understand CSS better
Specificity
Get Specific with Your CSS Styles is an another great article from SitePoint. Specificity is a word that's even more difficult to understand than it is to pronounce! But until you’ve mastered the concept, you’ll never really understand how your CSS style rules are being applied. In this article, the author presents the facts about specificity clearly, so you can apply them to your own CSS today. I want you to comment on what you took away from the article. Was it worth your while? What did you find most interesting? What did you find least interesting?
I learned about specificity and how it’s applied to CSS. Specificity can be applied to elements that can change declarations and apply changes. This works by changing one style attribute, you need to calculate the selector’s specificity. From there you can change the columns of each individual one and change the style rule within the elements of HTML. This was a interesting read but learning about the pseudo-code for it was kind of boring read but understanding specificity is better now because of this read