HTML Experiences
I was already pretty familiar with
HTML before this week’s assignment. The website assignment reminded me a lot of
the 504 website assignment. I was proud to discover that I remembered how to
create and upload the website from memory.
I looked through the IRLS 504
PowerPoint on HTML as a refresher. I read through many of the W3 Schools HTML
tutorials. I also looked at the W3 HTML 5 and CSS tutorials. I found the CSS
one particularly interesting because I have never written a style sheet
manually before. I think the W3 Schools tutorials are some of the best
available for HTML. I think they provide just enough information to make sense
of what you’re doing without overwhelming a newbie with unnecessary background
information. I also think their images of what your practices exercises should
look like are helpful.
I want to mention a resource that I
really love when working on HTML projects—Mozilla’s Thimble (https://thimble.webmaker.org/)
. Thimble is cool because it is a real-time HTML translator. I found myself
doing the W3 tutorials on Thimble rather than on their “Try it Yourself” HTML
writing areas. In general, I find writing HTML code to be fun and relaxing. I
like the way that the tags nest in a document and that it is relatively simple
to memorize the most common tags. Unlike working in the command line, I don’t
have to look at a cheat sheet every 30 seconds to write HTML. I home that
someday my facility with the command line will equal how comfortable I am with
HTML.
Practice System Installation
I’m not
sure if I’m supposed to talk about this if I am not using the Raspberry Pi…
However, I had enough memory on my computer to keep my VM server from the
previous units, so I am using that as a backup for my new server.
Installing
the server from the Standard Install document was no trouble at all. I am
excited to move on to the next steps for this project!
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