HTML and ME
At first when Dr. Brown assigned this HTML writing project I thought, “S#&t, I had just started fully understanding the concepts of the simple assembly language program and now it looks like it’ll be more ’staring at the computer until the solution comes to me’.” ,but it turns out I was wrong. HTML is much more fun to make a mistake on and by making these mistakes you end up learning new techniques. It turns out HTML is much more forgivable probably partly because HTML is not a programming language.
One example of this was when I was experimenting with how to put link on my website through text and I kept on ending up with more words highlighted for the link than what I wanted. This was caused by misplaced closing tabs and can be easily fixed, but this style would probably be useful for other applications(think children’s site where a toddler may not have the best control over his mouse).
With the use of simple cut and paste features working on a website is like working on a puzzle. One in which if a puzzle piece goes into the wrong place you can end up with a wholly different looking puzzle, and when you spend some time pasting and typing into notepad all of your changes and then you update the site and instantly everything that you wanted to amend or add changes and it looks good … well that’s kind of satisfying. Like working hard all day on the landscaping at your house and seeing your progress at the end of the day , but a hell of a lot quicker and a whole lot less sweat.
This assignment has definately peaked my interest and I hope to be able to take some classes on website design in the future.