Ryan Schumann WDD: July 2011

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Homework #10

What is css?

CSS stands for cascading style sheets. It lets you ad style to your HTML code. Such as letting you change the size of font, the font itself and also the color. It uses or applys it to the HTML code. One of the best ways is to have a external style sheet this can be done by having two different text documents one for the HTML and one for the CSS you then can add a code to the HTML document that gets your CSS file and links it to it thus using your CSS style to change the HTML file.. To me this helps to keep the web pages organized better.

Allows you to change the font.
Allows you to change the color of the font.
Allows your web page to be more readable.
Allows you to set the width of how far things go on a page.

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To create what I did above I typed this html code in the edit part of blogger. I tryed to keep it organized by using <html> , <head> and the <body> tags to place them accordingly in those spots. My guess is that Blogger doesn't allow you to use them when typing your own html.

Word count 216

<h3> What is css?</h3>
<p>CSS stands for cascading style sheets. It lets you ad style to your HTML code. Such as letting you change the size of font, the font itself and also the color. It uses or applys it to the HTML code. One of the best ways is to have a external style sheet this can be done by having two different text documents one for the HTML and one for the CSS you then can add a code to the HTML document that gets your CSS file and links it to it thus using your CSS style to change the HTML file.. To me this helps to keep the web pages organized better.</p>
<ul>
<li>Allows you to change the font.</li>
<li>Allows you to change the color of the font.</li>
<li>Allows your web page to be more readable.</li>
<li>Allows you to set the width of how far things go on a page.</li>
</ul>
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Homework #9

A. (10 points) Write a short essay about what you learned from our guest speaker, Bro Robertson about web development. The essay should be at least 200 words in length. My words (210)

I thought that it was interesting how he mentioned that in the future then it will be the little devices that will be more dominating. So when we design web sites we need to also pay close attention to how it will look on a littler device. He also mentioned how important it is to use the external css and to not keep it embedded. I can see that that can really help it to look more organized. I see that it is important to always be looking and learning from the new things that are coming out online. He mentioned a great site that can help us to get some more information. W3.org/tr/css-mediaqueries/ by seeking new information that is just coming out then we will be more valuable employees. It is important to be searching and looking for job opportunities. We never know what might come to us. If we are prepared then we will be much more valuable to them. Many employers now are falling a little behind on what is truly the best ways to get things done and how to use the new technology and software. But if we learn it and stay on top of it then we can be great assets to the company.

B. (10 points) Read Chapter 10 of the text book and do the “Try It Yourself” exercise on page 162.

3 HTML elements

1. one that I liked was

Creating multiple pages with navigation menus. This one can help you to have a better navigational menu. <ul><li><ul><li>

2. Something eles that is useful is Horizontal rules this can ad a line to your page that you can modify with css. Use the code <hr> to add this.

3. Line breaks is another great one u use the element <br> to force a line break. Just pushing enter does not do it. The first time I tried to make a web page then I thought I could just use enter. But it is nice to have something that will force one for you.

4.You can also make abbreviations by using something like this <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> it can be useful to be able to change the text around like that and make it do what you want.