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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 [...]

Chapter 3 in Creating a Web Site is entitled “putting your page on the web.”  And a lot of the content in this chapter was familiar to me.  Maybe I’m not giving myself enough credit coming in to this class!  We first learned about web hosting and the process by which a user’s browser takes [...]

We wrapped up week 1 with chapter 17 in Creating a Web Site.  This chapter dealt with blogs and how they differ from other websites.  The honest truth is I don’t think I will ever enjoy blogging.  There is surely quite a bit positive about the idea that blogging has a greater ease of maintenance [...]

Along with our reading assignments in lesson 1, we were given a number of websites to look over and review.  Both texts have companion websites, we were directed to several websites that showcased the best in web design, and also assigned to check out gimp.org for graphics.  The graphics portion of my website project is [...]

Along with the chapters in Creating a Web Site, we were also assigned to read the preface in our second text, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design.  I actually went ahead and also read the first chapter of this book as well.  While this book is extremely well-written and detailed, to me it is definitely [...]

So now we move on to chapter 2 in Creating a Web Site.  I have to say that I am really impressed with this text.  I have several family members who work in the computer science field, and I have always felt like they were speaking a foreign language when they “talked shop.”  But this [...]

I have spent quite a bit of time considering how to approach this blog assignment and have come to the conclusion that the best thing for me is going to be to break down each lesson section by section.  So this post will focus on chapter 1 in our text, Creating a Web Site.  This [...]