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Chapter 14 in Creating a Web Site taught us about JavaScript.  Seriously, I think I could read this chapter a dozen times and still feel like my head is swimming.  This is definitely a learning process for me.  And there is nothing in particular that I have questions about, I just feel like this entire [...]

Chapter 13 in Creating a Web Site is all about making money using the internet.  Again, this is a subject I had some prior knowledge of, because I had been really interested in giving affiliate marketing a try several years back.  I am definitely not creative enough to come up with a real, tangible product [...]

We reviewed the following websites this week:

urbandirty.com:  REALLY edgy stuff.  Most of the photos have a really dark feel to them.  Again, not exactly the look I’m going for with my own website, but very artistic.  The website has a cool, gothic look to it with the black background.

flickr.com, best textures group: This site was [...]

This week we studied chapter 4 in The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, which dealt with typography.  The chapter contained a warning towards the beginning that the study of typography could get addictive, and with good reason.  The terms that define the “anatomy of letterform” were particularly interesting.  It reminded me a lot of a grammar [...]

Chapter 12 in Creating a Web Site is entitled, “Letting visitors talk to you (and each other).”  This chapter has really made me think about how I would incorporate these concepts into my website.  My plan is to build one for my family’s bakery.  It was open for 40 years but was still a very [...]

Finally, in chapter 11 (“Attracting visitors”) in Creating a Web Site, I have come to a chapter that makes sense and which I digested with relative ease.  I know I have mentioned in past posts that I had played around with the idea of creating a web site back in probably 2004.  At the time [...]

We only had one site to view for this lesson, colorsontheweb.com.  At first glance I really liked this site.  It is just beautiful and as someone who has zero intrinsic artistic ability, I am really excited to learn about colors and how they work together.  However, I found at least one glaring grammar error on [...]

OK, so I have sort of changed my opinion of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design.  I originally thought it was way to technical for the novice web designer and clearly geared more toward a pro who had a lot more experience with the type of thing.  But as we move into Chapter 3, I [...]

In Chapter 10 of Creating a Web Site we learned about multipart pages.  Lots of information on types of workarounds to use when you want the same element to appear on each page of your site.  My biggest gripe with the chapter is that the majority of it dealt with working with frames, yet the [...]

I learned more about tables than probably I ever wanted to know in Chapter 9 of Creating a Web Site.  All about table based layouts vs. style based layouts.  It’s the former psych major in me talking but the part of this chapter that sticks out most in my head is the “id selector.”  I [...]