Learning Report 1
I used one web site to me help while I built my site.
- http://jessey.net/simon/xhtml_tutorial/
What Did I Learn?
I came into this assignment having a basic knowledge of html coding, like the html, body, and heading tags. There are so many things that I still don’t know and this first group of assignments helped to get a grasp of how to learn them. The tutorials from jessey.net really helped me understand today's web standards and that I needed to know them. The most helpful tutorial was the one on lists- how and when to use them. I also learned about site validation
The second thing that I learned was how to use anchors. Anchors help your users navigate your pages with a click of the mouse. It is quite a nice feature to be able to click a link and you go to the part of the webpage that you wish to see. It is also nice to be able to click a link and go back to the top of the page. Without these two seemingly small pieces of coding, my site is just a long list of facts that no one wants to read through.
How Did I Use It?
First, having a decent knowledge of current web standards is vital. How can you compete with something when you know nothing about it? One of the things that I learned about was how to validate your site to make sure that your site doesn’t have any errors. I learned the hard way that one misplaced ending tag could cause me five errors on my validation, and endless hours of work to fix it. You can click the picture below to show you that my site has no errors.
I also learned about what anchors are and how to use them. Anchors help your users to navigate your site. I worked long and hard to develop a plan for my site, how struggled over how to present it. After I had learned about anchors, I knew right then and there exactly what my site would look like. Take a look if you wish. Click Here.
