Wednesday, October 15, 2008

thoughts on week 8

The tutorial on html was confusing, but in a good way. I always thought that it would be cool to know how to create a website. But I figured it would be kind of hard. The tutorial definitely proved me right! It was interesting to be able to play around with it, though, and see what would happen if you edited and changed things in the format. I guess as long as you had the cheat sheet handy until you learned it better, it would be helpful. I guess it’s like learning any other language; you just have to keep practicing it until you understand it!

CSS is also slightly confusing, and I can see why they warned you that you should be “fluent” in html before trying CSS.

The article helped me a lot with seeing what the tutorial couldn’t show me. I wanted to see an “actual” example of a website with the html language alongside so that I could see what was what. The article was interesting in that aspect because it showed both at the same time.

I think ultimately (and if I had, like, two straight years to devote to it) I would like to learn html. It would definitely be very fulfilling to see a final product after all that hard work!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree with many of your thoughts here on learning HTML. I've played around with it, and it's something I wish I knew; but, I think I'm convincing myself more and more that with things out there like Content Management Systems, etc. you can be a web author without "being" a web author. :)