HTML

Lecture
This weeks lecture was again taken by Daniel, he started the lecture by talking a bit about the coursework we will be receiving soon and that we will be starting Dreamweaver next week. The topics in the lecture were XHTML and CSS. We started by looking at Mark-up language, giving definitions and things you need to take into consideration. Following this Daniel talked about the 4 step process, which us used to decide which time of mark up language to use. We then went on to HTML. We then went onto CSS, “In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language.”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS)

External Reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

Tutorial
This week’s tutorial was an introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver and setting out our webspace via mapping a drive. To start we had to map a drive, to do this we went into My Computer and followed instructions given to us on a hand out. Following this we were asked to start up Dreamweaver and manage a site, this is to choose where you want your documents to be saved and what the URL of the webpage is, by doing this it will automatically upload pages to the internet once they have been saved. After doing this we started doing some work on CSS, we were set the task of creating a style called BigRed, we had been given instructions how to do it in a few ways.

Reflection
I enjoyed both the lecture and the tutorial this week. I thought it was good that we were moving onto HTML and the use of Dreamweaver. I have done a fair bit of HTML before and used Dreamweaver several times, but I had never really used CSS, so it was really interesting covering that in the lecture. The tutorial was really straight forward to begin with, carrying out basic functions in Dreamweaver, then as we moved on to using CSS it became much more interesting. There were some of the methods of how to make your own style that seemed pointless but the last method on the hand out was really precise and worked well.