Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Reading Notes #7

HTML Tutorial and Cheat Sheet
This tutorial shows you how to write HTML to make your own website. It even shows you how to add colors, do line breaks, and other stylistic aspects that you may want on your website beyond black and white text. You can also add images, tables, or hyperlinks! It looks like a lot of code, but with this tutorial you can just copy and paste the < > instructions where you need them in the html editor.

The cheat sheet is a pdf download that gives you those "instructions," called tags, for text, formatting, forms, and graphics. This document is much easier to use and follow than all the links on the tutorial page! If I had to make websites all day, I would definitely print out that cheat sheet and keep it pasted next to my keyboard!

Beyond HTML
Not being familiar with html or web development at all (beyond blogger) a lot of this article went over my head. I definitely know that Dr. He will explain this well! The authors talk about the CMS and databases of the Georgia State University Library. Many of the graphic examples LOOK like the Access database relationships we had to create for our assignment, but even more complex. This article is really intimidating for an introduction (or beyond?) to html!

No comments:

Post a Comment