The very first webpage we made was overwhelming due to all the information we learned in a few hours. I was slightly familiar with HTML and had randomly stumbled onto the View Page Source section of webpages, which I inevitably tried to read it. The page source did not seem very readable and almost felt like a foreign language, but as I analyzed it, it seemed pretty intuitive. Though I was interested, at the moment I never thought I would find myself not only knowing how to read it but also how to write it! And even though the first day was draining, I also could not wait to dive deeper into the world of HTML.
It has been a very gratifying journey writing and deciphering HTML. I love being able to write in TextEdit and see it transform once opened in a browser. Dreamweaver has made it easier to code since it begins inserting tags for you and it detects an area that has missed a closing tag, semicolon, and what not. Though it does not make it super easy to identify the problem it does narrow down the area. I really like working with Dreamweaver because I can see how webpage is developing as I am writing it. I also appreciate the use of TextEdit because it helps me reinforce all the codes I need to learn without having them right at my fingertips.
CSS has been great! I love the idea of it, but there is so much markup language that it is going to take me a while to learn. And although it is also intuitive, I feel that I might just forget a selector. This is also the area in which I end up making mistakes because I forget a semicolon or bracket.
The hardest yet most rewarding book assignment has been Jen's Kitchen. It was a bit difficult trying to link all the pages to one another and making sure the correct hypertext link was inserted so that you page could link where you wanted it to go. I really enjoyed seeing the end product and it helped me understand how my server is set up and how to link to files or folders within it. Which, in turn, helped me better understand how to link my index.html page. http://www.csupomona.edu/~bopinedo/ged512/books/chapter6/Exercise%206-1%20to%206-7/jenskitchen/ex6.4.index.html. I did not find any particular book exercise hard; I found some to be tedious because of the amount of work (coding) needed but not the exercise itself.
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