Over the last two weeks, I have dusted off ten years worth of cobwebs that have accumulated on the HTML part of my brain. I am happy to report that I picked it back up relatively easy. Last week, I used raw HTML to build a basic web page that displayed some biographical information. I went to the W3school website and took notes as I viewed and tried out different elements of HTML. I love the fact that their website has the ability to allow you to change code and see the changes it creates in a side by side view. The only obstacle I experienced was that on my computer, once I saved the code as an html file, it only wanted to open it in Dreamweaver so it took some extra time to toggle between viewing and changing it on Notepad and then viewing it as a web page. The experience was a success and it really helped me to understand the computer’s point of view when it comes to how technology works.
This week, I used a css file that was provided to me and made changes to the file and then saw how much a web page’s look can be changed by only making a few changes. The biggest obstacle was the fact that I made and saved changes without documenting them, expecting to remember what I did. That was a big mistake. I had to look at the changed code and the original side by side and then look at the changed web site to figure out exactly what changes I had made. I could have saved myself so much time if I had documented the changes as I did them. In the end, I understand how, through the use of CSS I can make significant changes very easily.
I plan on using HTML and CSS on my mentor’s web page and the web page of a co-worker. Now that I understand more about how the two work together and have overcome my fear of raw HTML. I am excited to see what I can create moving forward for both professional and personal use.
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