Week 4 Cascading Style Sheets

In this class we learnt how to take control of the style of your pages, including the colors and size of fonts, the width and colors of lines, and the amount of whitespace between items on the page. The cascading style sheets specification/CSS allowed me to specify rules for how the content of elements within your document appears. In fact, I learnt how to set different rules to control the appearance of every element in my page so as to make my page pop more. Honestly,at first this was realllly difficult for me as I had to be copy and pasting each time but as time went by I new various rules out my head which made me very happy as this proved I was learning!! This class taught me to pay strict attention to detail as if even a comma or colon was missing then that would result in everything being incorrect so it took me a while but I got it..eventually. Now,the CSS rule is made up of two parts the selector and the declaration-the selector indicates which element or elements the declaration applies to while the declaration sets out the styling of each element. The declaration can be broken down into two parts namely the property and the value- the property is the element which you would like to be affected by the value for example {font-size:22px}.I also had to take note of the fact that properties are kept inside the curly brackets. Another huge factor was that of the link element, here we learnt how to link the html/xhtml documents to the CSS, this element was vital so I had to stick it in my head. We touched more in depth on attributes and id selectors and how to apply each in the CSS. Week 4 was indeed a difficult but informative one :)

Week 2 Structure of a Page

After acquiring the basic knowledge of what a webpage is all about we were then introduced to the structure of the page in week two.This class was very informative as I was now able to identify each element and its uses.The XHTML document should contain four elements namely html, head,title, and body- theses provide the structure with which you can create XHTML pages in other words they can be considered the backbone of the XHTML document. The html element is considered the containing element of the entire HTML or XHTML,head element contains dataabout the document such as a title or link, title element should contain a title which relates to the particular website you are creating while the body element is basically the "meaty" part of the XHTML as it contains the content of the document you see in the browser. In this class we were drilled on the vital point that once you open a tag you MUST close the tag at first it was a lot of information to accumulate but eventually I got the hang of it due to practice practice practice. I also learnt how about attribute groups and how each was used i the html/xhtml elements-which led to basic text formatting where I could mark up my text for example font-size, colors, type-faces,etc... Additional we did a few exercise with ordered and unordered list as well as grouping elements with divs and spans.

Colour,Images and Objects

Week 3,Week 3, Week 3!! Basically this class had everybody excited as we were introduced to ways in which we could "pimp" our website by using colors adding objects and linking images. There a two ways to insert colors namely by using Hex Codes and Color Names. In my opinion using Hex Codes is definitely the way to go as you can determine the perfect hue by just scrolling over the colorr chart for example the hex code for black is#oooooo, white #ffffff etc...By the end of the class I looked at colors in a different light in that I started to see the importance of choosing the correct colors for any design i'm doing and also what type of images to use and where to use them.