Monday, February 11, 2013

Gork Lessons

The article on "How to Gork to Web Standards" is about what you need to become when you are working within web design. The article brings up how most people who start out in the graphic arts and make their way into web design. In order to be a successful web designer you need to take on a multiple personality disorder. You have to a writer personality in order to create a successful site. You also need to have engineer personality to build the walls of the site. The third personality you to take on is a artist. The artist allows the web designer to create tasteful website.

"Getting started with HTML" is about the basics that you need to know for when you are starting to code with HTML. HTML is the language of your browser. The article covers the key information that a person needs when they coding in HTML. This article felt that the key parts were the coding you need for a title, headings & paragraphs, adding emphasis, images, and adding links as well as list.

While CSS is " Cascading Style Sheets" ( http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/lesson1.php ).CSS helps to create style to web sites. HTML is for text while CSS is used for formatting the structure. HTML uses < > in it's coding while CSS uses { } . Applying CSS to HTML does not look to scary after becoming more familiar with HTML coding. According to the article there are three methods to keep in mind. Method one is in-line text (ex:  </head><body style="background-color: #FF0000;"> <p>This is a red page</p> ). Method two is internal coding ( ex:  <head><title>Example</title><style type="text/css">  body {background-color: #FF0000;}</style></head> ). Method three is external link which looks like <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/style.css" /> .





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