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HTML made easy

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on February 8, 2008
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I’m talking about the program called Dreamweaver. For those of you who don’t know. Dreamweaver is a web development application developed by Macromedia. Dreamweaver helps you design web pages using a GUI rather than having to go through the hassle of writing the code yourself. However, it is possible to edit the code yourself if need be.

I just recently started to take a crack at designing my first basic website. So far Dreamweaver has been a lifesaver. I have been trying to write the majority of the code myself, but when I’m stuck on something, I’ll use the GUI and then take a look at the Dreamweaver generated code. It’s somewhat of a cheat sheet when I get stuck in a rut.

I understand that even though Dreamweaver is a great tool, once you get more advanced in your web design you have much more control over your pages by writing your own HTML. So overall I’m really enjoying Dreamweaver, but I don’t want to rely too heavily on it.

HTML, CSS, Javascript

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on January 25, 2008
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I am currently attending ITT Tech and at the moment am enrolled in an HTML class. I’m about 5 weeks into the ten week course, and am learning a lot. Right now I know most of the basics and feel pretty confident that I could put together a small, fairly basic website. I know how to work with tables, apply fonts, add images, add styles, and work with CSS to a small extent.

Javascript




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on December 21, 2007
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I started messing around with some javascript today. Javascript is sort of like CSS in that they both customize the html skeleton to create different effects. Whereas, CSS largely deals with the visual portion of html (text color, font size, font style) Javascript makes actions in conjunction with html possible. For example, with Javascript you can create Popups, cause text to change with a click, or switch the url of a link by clicking a button.

A program called Canvascape is being developed that can design full rendered 3D environments written strictly with javascript. This could lead to detailed game engines being written with only javascript. The upside to using Javascript is its lightweight nature, with easy to write scripts and small files sizes.

Using HTML and CSS

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on November 21, 2007
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Today I worked with html as well as css. HTML is basically like the skeleton of the web page, or the backbone. Then CSS allows you to adjust styles, and colors of a certain web page, but the initial html remains unchanged. CSS cannot work independently from HTML, but HTML can work on its own without CSS. CSS tweaks the html and makes it more interesting. ie. adds color, changes font, changes color.