I can code – I made my first page! I do feel a sense of achievement – as this is something I have never done before and I am really looking forward to completing my first page.
Some difficulties
I got stuck when I tried to change the background colour – I typed in
<.... bgcolour="#ccffcc">*
and couldn’t change the background no matter how many times saved my notepad then refreshed...
I re-typed it then I tried again...
<.... bgcolor="#ccffcc">*
...no...
Then I 'copy and pasted' from lesson 2 To compare what I had typed...
Aha!
The perils of American spelling - no ‘u’ in colour! An important lesson I learned is to literally type what you see on screen and not what you think it should be.
This also happened with ‘centre’ and ‘center’ but I was more aware to look for it this time.
I can bold and italicise but I understand that you should never used italics on a websites, as Baxter (2003) states, it makes the words difficult to read as pixels are not rendered properly.
I learned that spacing is also very important! Missing or adding just one space plays havoc with your code (and when your eyeballs have dried out is quite tricky to spot!).
Other problems included; my Internet explorer kept blocking pop ups and running scripts so I was constantly having to select 'yes' for 'do you want to allow this ?…' and at times, the 'refreshed' page didn’t always take on the html it was supposed to.
“One more note about links... It is perfectly acceptable to link to someone's web page(s) without asking. Links are what makes the Web the Web. Again, because this is a very common newbie misconception... if you want to link to another web page... just link to it. You don't have to ask permission, even if you really really feel like asking would just be the polite thing to do... it's just not necessary. (Barta, n.d)
I don’t agree with the above from Page Tutor…our linking policy at work is very stringent and we request that people ask permission before they link to our site.
Cool stuff
Unordered (bullettted lists) and ordered lists were fun to make! and I like the comments section – hidden messages eh! the comment must start with
Validator check is cool I corrected the deliberate error in the html to get a ‘passed validation’ message to understand more about how they are presented.
Chalk and cheese! there are many differences between HTML and blogging
Before I started the HTML task, I thought that the differences between html and blogging are with a blog you need to concentrate on your content – how you express yourself and you can let the systems take care of the formatting. I still think this and the tutorial reinforced this opinion.
For now, blogging is much easier (given my time contraints), but from a satisfaction point of view I really liked the challenge of learning a new language - I enjoyed the tutiorial although I was very long and I had to complete it over several ‘uni study sessions’. Sometime I was frustrated when I could not figure our where I had gone wrong (colour/color) but it did teach me to pay attention.
I also now look at the view source and it makes much more sense – before I could only pick out little sections of source such as this is bold. I have a great appreciation now for people that code in html!
* I have to truncate the html, otherwise it will not show up on the blog post.
References
Barta, J. (n.d) So, you want to make a Web Page!
Retrieved 20 July, 2008, from http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/lesson14.html
Baxter, B.(2003). Making the Web Work. Designing Effective Web Applications. Indianapolis : New Riders, p354.
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