Friday, October 10, 2008

Week 8 Reading Responses

HTML tutorial
  • This was really neat! When I first saw the initial web page for it, I was intimidated, but once I tried the first example, I became excited at the thought that this is something I can do!
  • It's interesting that a few dozen words/symbols can create a brand new page.
  • The tutorial was comprehensive, I feel like it provided the tools to create a page for someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
  • Why for an abbreviation or acronym title wouldn't you just type in the actual acronym or abbreviation rather than "coding" it in?
WebMonkey HTML cheat sheet
  • I wouldn't use this, I'd refer back to the tutorial for help. I liked the examples that it provided.
  • I'm not comfortable with the page creating process to use this cheat sheet.

CSS Tutorial

  • would've liked more visual examples for CSS, like the HTML tutorial had
  • I don't understand how it's different than HTML, it seems like an add on to me.

4 comments:

Corrine W said...

Wasn't it great the wa you could "play" with the HTML in the first tutorial?  I liked the window where you could make changes on the left and then click to see the changes on the right.  Fun and informative.  The immediate feedback was what made it seem doable to me.

Micquel said...

Corrine, I thought the same thing!!! It really made it less intimidating to be able to change things, see immediately what you did and not feel like the whole thing was going to crash on you if you hit the wrong button!!!

sanda said...

Hi Rebekah,

It seems that most of us are a little confused about the CSS article. However, I think it is one of those things that does not make sense until you do not try it. I am confident that once we actually start using HTML and CSS most of the questions we might have now will be answered.

Sanda

Amy! said...

Micquel, I loved being able to experiment with the HTML. That tends to be how I learn anything new: just learn a few basic things and experiment to see what happens! It will definitely be nice to be able to refer back to the article and play with the examples once I'm actually making my own page.