Cascading Style Sheet Basics

This week, we are learning about using CSS basics in developing our websites. I haven't started reading chapter 4 yet because I have been really busy in applying for jobs, networking people and having phone interviews with multiple companies for full time positions. So thats been my major priority but tomorrow I am going to mainly focus on my time on doing class work including on reading the chapter for this week and getting started on my website project. I always wonder on what CSS coding is like and what's so different about HTML coding. I guess thats what I'm about to find out today in class through our hands on activity today.

Group Evaluation Presentation

This week in Web 150, we are going to present our assign websites to the whole class in groups about our critiques in how our assign website is structured, its capability in utilizing multiple browsers, how organized the layout of each web page is throughout the entire website, and how functional our website is that has photos and videos in the website.

All of us as a group was given parts of the assignment equally in critiquing the assigned website that we're going to be writing an executive summary as our only weekly assignment that's due Sunday night. This is going to be an easy week for me because I'm not going to be having a lot of homework to do but also my topic was approved so I can get started on my website project that's due in the end of the semester.

Web Design Basics

This week in class, I've learned a lot of the very basics of web visual design that is used to create a visually appealing website. Some of the stuff I've already learned at Illinois State like what type of browsers are the most popular to use on the web and on mobile formats. I also learned some the formats and techniques that were used on my own building my own online portfolio and blogs to make them appealing towards my target audience. I liked this chapter a lot because it shows you different visual web design techniques to use in certain situations and that this is something that I will use for my career in digital marketing and web development.

HTML Basics

This is the second week of this course and I'm learning the basics of using HTML coding. As I've been reading the second chapter, it's goes into detail on what coding elements to use to do certain functions and where to write the code under certain elements. Also in order to write HTML coding, you would have to write the tag of what kind of command you want your code to do on a web page and then end the code with the same tag that was used before you wrote the code.

It was a very interesting experience that I'm being able to write whatever message I want to write on and use different tag elements to make the message perform certain commands on a web page.