Cascading Style Sheet
CSS, with this helpful webpage, can help you manage the style and layout of many different web pages all at the same time. You can change the code already written to create a webpage the way you want it to appear. However, I am confused how this tutorial allows you to edit multiple web pages at once. How does this simplify the process or save time?
CSS Tutorial
This tutorial explains a lot more how to make an html file, a css file, and how to use both of them. Plus, it has all the code (I'm assuming that's what you call all the tags and everything all together) already written out so that you can copy and paste it. This tutorial shows you how to change fonts and colors, and even a navigation bar, adding lines, and other stylistic aspects. It tells you to save two files, one html and one css, and to load them to your website, but I still don't see how they work together. Maybe when we start on Assignment 6 this will become clear. It says that the style comes from one file, while the information is in the html file, but why is having two files instead of one really make it simpler?
Style Sheet for the Web
Ah ha! Maybe this chapter will put all the pieces together for me. Maybe the "code" was talking about were a series of "rules" which contain a selector and a declaration, which has a property and value. These determine what the information (like the text) will look like, color, font, etc. There are four different ways to attach a style sheet to the html, which this chapter calls gluing, but I still think I'd need to see this demonstrated. They also explain what "Cascading" style sheets mean... it means that multiple style sheets can affect one html file. However, I don't see how a user can alter a rule created by the creator of the webpage! Once the rules are written, how can someone looking at the webpage (I'm assuming that's what they mean by user) change that? What you see is what you get... or so I thought?
Showing posts with label HTML. Show all posts
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Monday, October 10, 2011
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!
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!
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