Pedro Sotomayor's Blog
Mar 12th, 2009 @ 4:06 am
Week 3 Tut
Today we had Nathan for our tutorial instead of Max. We were taught how to make basic webpages using Text Wrangler on the Mac’s and then editing the way it looks using a CSS file. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Basically when HTML was created it was never meant to be reedited or specifically define the content of a single document. When tags which allow you to specify what colour font and background you wanted it was just too difficult to do on a HTML sheet. CSS was created so that you could edit your setup, layout, colour and entire theme on a separate document and then add it to your HTML document after.
This is a standard CSS sheet. What this one is doing is it is making a peice of media such as a picture and clickable link to another webpage.
At the start of our class it was all pretty basic, nothing I hadn’t learnt before in high school however some things such as navigating links started to get a bit tricky and Nathan was explaining it all at 300km/ph!
But he came around and helped us all out one by one so no one got lost and it was really good. I actually learnt a few new things about making a HTML document look really neat and tidy that i hadn’t learnt before such as tabbing everything within the header or the body so that they were all in steps and you could see exactly where everything was placed alot easier.
This is as basic as you can get when starting a new webpage. Pretty much in the first heading it will say “My first webpage” and then in the space below it it will say “Hello World” in class we made webpages that had a number of different headings with page breaks and pictures to fit across the top of the page. It was pretty complex but at the same time it is all straight forward just understanding what the logos mean and represent.
Text Wrangler is a great program to use for this.
