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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 [...]

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 [...]