Okay, I loved the HTML tutorial. It was cool to see what all of those things with <word> really mean! And I had fun actually playing around with stuff. Do I think I could do this on my own? With an unlimited amount of time and patience, yes.
The cheatsheet was also very useful. I think that these 2 resources, if used together, would maybe (hopefully) be of great use if I had to do something like this for a library.
With the CSS stuff, yeah...I'd need someone like Jiepu or Dr. He to walk me through it. I don't find CSS as intuitive or user-friendly as the HTML stuff.
The article about CMS and Georgia State was interesting, especially the part contrasting the open source option with the in-house option. After reading this, I know that I would never make a good web development librarian. Forget what I said in the 2nd paragraph. :-) However, I have a lot of respect for people who can do this stuff.
I, too, Mr. Gatton, would need a real 'tutor' sitting next to me to oversee any HTML work for which I'm responsible! Although it's not really my 'thing,' I AM glad to at least be able to make some sense of it now. It's like studying a foreign language that doesn't use our same alphabet.
ReplyDeleteI think our next assignment is going to be about building a web page (at least that is what the syllabus says), so I think we are definitely going to need this information. Tim, I agree with you that CSS seems harder than HTML. I mean, I get why it exists, but using it seems sort of complicated. There is a section called "CSS Examples" on the CSS website that has links at the bottom of each section that provides more in-depth information. I wonder if we are going to have to create style-sheets in our next assignment as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree that CSS looks more complicated when compared with the HTML. However, it is possible to learn this language. It is just a matter to learn the CSS syntax and understand a “relationships” between the CSS and HTML and later XHTML. The site W3C tutorial is good starting place to practice writing CSS code. As Michele F. said, it is similar to learning a foreign language. You begin from an alphabet, progress to letters and words, and then to the essay. Teachers can help students, but from my language learning experience 90 % of effort must come from students.
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