This a place to practice tags and take notes about the lessons. I hope to learn all about the correct usage of HTML for my web pages.
Week 1 -- "Creating Your First Web Page"
* Basic Terminology
* Creating a reusable "template" and starting a "Virtual Notebook"
* Getting Your Page to the Web and Using FTP
* A listing of "online resources"
* Mac Supplement for Creating a Beginning Web Page
* MSNTV WebTV Supplement to Create and Publish Your Web Page Online
* Assignment
Class Notes for Week 1:
The single MOST important HTML tip or trick you will ever get is "BE CONSISTENT." Establishing consistent HTML writing habits and sticking with them from the very beginning will help you write HTML that rarely goes wrong and is far easier to debug if a problem occurs. As your HTML skills progress and your pages become more complicated, the more consistency you are able to maintain, the less you will find yourself scratching your head over some odd result!
Establish a precedent of always using a descriptive alt attribute and the height and width attributes in your image tags. The alt attribute gives the viewer the description of the graphic in the alternative text if the image is not displayed by the browser. This can be important if the person viewing your page is using speech recognition software to read the page or if the browser has images turned off. Use the height and width attributes. The browser will read them and make the correct size spot for them as it loads the page. Makes for faster loading pages. More about this in the week when we discuss graphics.
Don't carry style tags over paragraph changes. For example: If you wish to create bold text and want that bold text to carry over several paragraphs, open and close the tags which create bold text with every paragraph.
ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD WEB PAGE:
1. KISS (Keep It Simple Sweetie)
2. Keep images as small as possible to help load times.
3. Develop a consistent style both in presentation and HTML coding.
4. Don't overdo it! Just because you CAN add some fancy feature doesn't mean that it SHOULD be added.
5. Use complimentary colors.
