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Informative

very informative even for experienced learners so far

Almost done.

Learning about CSS now. Feeling okay after the first chapter on CSS.

Gets y posts

Really enjoying this.

I’ve learned a few things from the CSS section. However, I haven’t learned anything which has revealed something new or taught me how to design better using CSS. I particularly was looking forward to the chapter on color but it didn’t cover much of color theory or the user experience when using different color text and backgrounds.

I liked learning about all the functionality HTML has, much of which I did not know about. It revealed to me a lot about how HTML works and the purpose of and differences between web browsers. I look forward to learning about the CSS portions as I know that’s what I’ve had trouble remembering when programming in CSS.

I’m enjoying it so far. I think it’s taught me a couple of interesting things I didn’t know and I’m able to quickly review that which I already knew. I am worried it won’t provide much information on how to code just rather a lot of documentation, which is helpful, but not what I’m expecting out of this book.

Stopped before Ch. 19

Lists and Layout

Ch. 13: Boxes

Options for Text in CSS

Intro to CSS

Finished the HTML section of the book. Onto the CSS!

Ch. 5 and Ch. 6

Ch.2 and Ch.3. Quick reviews of types of Text content and Lists in HTML

Just breezed through Ch. 1, very nicely presented and easy to follow. Good refresher.

This book is helping a lot to explain what is possible to do with HTML and many examples of it. CSS is next.

72 pages read in 54 min, via @leioapp (http://leio.co).

"When users enter information
into a form, the server needs to
know which form control each
piece of data was entered into.
(For example, in a login form, the
server needs to know what has
been entered as the username
and what has been given as the
password.) Therefore, each form
control requires a name attribute. "

*"Using elements for
headings helps people who
use screen readers, improves
the ability for search engines
to index your pages, and also
enables you to control the
appearance of tables better
when you start to use CSS."

*"JPGs, GIFs, and PNGs belong to a type of image format known as bitmap"
*"Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are a relatively new format used to display vector images directly on the web"
*"Images often come with captions. HTML5 has introduced a new element to contain images and their caption so that the two are associated."
*The element allows web page authors to add
a caption to an image.

* "Whenever you have many different
colors in a picture you should use a JPEG."

*"The images you use on your website should be
saved at the same width and height that you
want them to appear on the page"

*"Images created for the web should be saved at
a resolution of 72 ppi. The higher the resolution
of the image, the larger the size of the file."

*"On larger websites it's a good idea to organize your code by placing the pages for each different section of the site into a new folder. Folders on a website are sometimes referred to as directories"

*"Alt text should give an accurate description of the image content so it can be understood by screen reader software (used by people with visual impairments) and search engines." (p106) (img attribute)

*URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
*An absolute URL starts with the domain name for that site, and can be followed by the path to a specific page. If no page is specified, the site will display the homepage.
*When linking to other pages within the same site, you can use relative URLs. These are like a shorthand version of absolute URLs because you do not need to specify the domain name.

*(p57) Semantic Elements (used NOT for styling but to give more info to your browser or search engines.

"Their purpose is to describe the content of your web pages more accurately. For example, the voice of a screen reader may add
emphasis to the words inside the element, or a search
engine might register that your page features a quote if you use
the

element."

* "Semantic markup: which provides extra information; such
as where emphasis is placed in a sentence, that something
you have written is a quotation (and who said it), the
meaning of acronyms, and so on" (p48)

*(p56) Content Management Systems & Visual editors vs. Code Views

I love how smart this move was by this author. They used their webpage as a practice problem/example and made me click on their website lol. Good subtle marketing haha.

"But you can still look at the code that a web server sends to you. To try this out for yourself, simply go to the sample code for this chapter, at www.htmlandcssbook.com/code/ and click on the link called "View Source."

Notes:
* "Each HTML element tells the browser
something about the information that sits between its opening and
closing tags" (p27)

* "Attributes provide additional information
about the contents of an element. They appear
on the opening tag of the element and are
made up of two parts: a name and a value,
separated by an equals sign" (p32)

*lang = '"fr" --> a language that every browser can understand.