We spent a couple classes on HTML this week. HTML is the most basic, common, also powerful internet programming language. As a computer science major student, I have been familiar with HTML for a while. However, for designing a prettier user interface, I sometimes rely on the web-design tools, i.e. Dreamweaver, Visual Studio. After these classes, I realized I forgot many of the basic HTML type skills because of relying on the tools. Now, these classes helped me pick the basic skills up again.
For returning to the class, I would like to introduce an online HTML tutorial website: http://www.w3schools.com/html/. This website covers most knowledge that one needs to know to build a webpage. They use examples and “Try it yourself” function to make the tutorial more understandable and interesting. Hope this website can hope some classmates who are interested in building their own website.
I completely know how you feel, as a graphics minor I definitely rely on Dreamweaver and InDesign to make my life easier to make documents and projects. I knew the very basics of HTML code, but its like trying to drive a BMW without understanding how the car itself starts. I am thankful were are taking an in-depth look at the basics/background of HTML; it has helped me already in class! I just could not get a word or two placed correctly in the program, but I switched over to HTML code and was able to fix it.
I can completely relate to what you went through. I also for the most part completely forgot any HTML I learned in High School. Like anything else if you don’t use it you lose it. Thanks for posting the link!