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Loved, LOVED Chapter 2 in The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, which was all about color.  For one because I am not the slightest bit artistic naturally so this is really neat stuff to learn about, and two, because this really appeals to the part of me that started out as a psychology major when [...]

For this week’s lessons, we visited the following websites:

webstyleguide.com: Really easy to use.  Laid out the whole table of contents and had lots of straightforward, easy to understand information.  The site itself was very “clean” and made use of a lot of white space.  I liked that there were not lots of distractions and fussy [...]

Chapter 8 in Creating a Web Site deals with linking pages.  Honestly, this chapter did nothing but confuse me.  I was having a lot of trouble linking pages correctly when we did it during our class session at the beginning of the semester, even though I was fortunate in getting some helpful tips from a [...]

Chapter 7 in Creating a Web Site is all about graphics.  I felt like this was a chapter I should go over with a fine-toothed comb because this is where I got hung up in the past.  In other words, in our past exercises when I tried inserting graphics, I could not get them to render [...]

Since I already read ahead earlier in the semester and commented on Chapter 1 in The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, I am not going to post any further discussion here.

In the 6th chapter of Creating a Web Site, we learned what seems to be like everything there could possibly be to know about style sheets.  To being with, we learned the difference between external, internal, and inline style sheets.  Clearly I will be using the external type in my own website.  I read about [...]

Chapter 5 in Creating a Web Site is entitled “XHTML Text Elements.”  AT this point this is starting to get somewhat complicated for me, I’ll admit, but I’m trying to take it slow and pay attention to what I’m reading and the examples.  I liked that the text very clearly points out the difference between [...]

Icann.org – The website for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.  This is a private entity that is responsible for coordinating the ip addresses and domain names of all content on the internet with the goal of making it equally accessible to users worldwide.  Pretty interesting stuff.  I remember when I played around [...]

This week we were assigned to visit and critique the websites www.w3.com and www.w3/schools.  Let me just say that I thought the w3 (otherwise known as the World Wide Web Consortium) website,  was awesome.   It is set in a 3-column format and even though it contains a vast amount of information, it still gives the impression [...]

Chapter 4 in Creating a Web Site is all about the various types of web design software and how to use them.  In view of the fact that using a text editor to create HTML pages is tedious and prone to user error, most web designers graduate to more sophisticated programs once they’ve learned the [...]