Grok, HTML and CSS

Grok. To grok. "To understand completely." *Often used by programmers and other assorted geeks.*

It was nice to think of coding in this way! I am also in a business programming class this semester and I decided early on that coding is my enemy (mainly because of the instructor of that class and his style of teaching.) Although coding and I are still on rough terms, I've come to realize that I can grasp the concepts (eventually) if I think about the actions and code in plain English and read through it in that way. That's what Craig Cook is talking about. Be the designer, but in that be the writer, engineer and artist.

As the writer, you need to be fluent in a language in order to properly express your ideas so that everyone can understand. The same concept applies to web design.

It was nice to (again) reiterate what HTML stands for and what it is. These tutorials may be helpful later on when we are actually creating our webpages, especially Dave Raggett's article. The second was about CSS, something I had heard of but never knew what it was.

CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, is the style language of html docs. It is used for formatting the already structured content. Using CSS, you can change the font, color, margins, lines, width, height and background images of your webpage. CSS seems to allow for more personalization, rather than just functionality.