Friday, October 17, 2008
Muddiest Point for Week 8
Ok, in the article, Beyond HTML, please clarify what it means when the author says that in a content management system, "the content is disconnected from the layout and design elements of the page". huh?
Reading Notes for Week 8: HTML
This is my first homepage. This text is bold
The statement above is unfortunately true, well sorta.
One of the readings/exercises this week was to use the html tutorial, www.w3schools.com/html and it was super easy! Some of you have probably created web-pages before and found this too simple, but I thought it was helpful for beginners, like myself. I've used html (hyper-text mark-up language) before but I didn't realize I was implementing the essentials to a web-page. YAY, for learning new stuff!
The HTML Cheatsheet from WebMonkey was also helpful for a novice like yours truly. Learn stuff like basic tags (the title of your document), body attributes ( sets the background color & text), text tags (creates text), formatting (creates new paragraphs, indent a sentence), and links (create a hyperlink), plus learn how to create a table, table attributes and frames.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets define how to display html elements, the Styles were added to html 4.0 to solve the problem of delineating content from html documentation layout.
Beyond HTML, Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system by Doug Goans, Guy Leach, and Teri M. Vogel is a definite read for the aspiring web librarian. The article described the Georgia State University Library system's design of research guides via content management system and use of the open source software, FrontPage. It was also refreshing to read about the ownership of librarians who co-designed this system. The success of this project was the collaboration between the librarians and web developers.
The statement above is unfortunately true, well sorta.
One of the readings/exercises this week was to use the html tutorial, www.w3schools.com/html and it was super easy! Some of you have probably created web-pages before and found this too simple, but I thought it was helpful for beginners, like myself. I've used html (hyper-text mark-up language) before but I didn't realize I was implementing the essentials to a web-page. YAY, for learning new stuff!
The HTML Cheatsheet from WebMonkey was also helpful for a novice like yours truly. Learn stuff like basic tags (the title of your document), body attributes ( sets the background color & text), text tags (creates text), formatting (creates new paragraphs, indent a sentence), and links (create a hyperlink), plus learn how to create a table, table attributes and frames.
CSS or Cascading Style Sheets define how to display html elements, the Styles were added to html 4.0 to solve the problem of delineating content from html documentation layout.
Beyond HTML, Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system by Doug Goans, Guy Leach, and Teri M. Vogel is a definite read for the aspiring web librarian. The article described the Georgia State University Library system's design of research guides via content management system and use of the open source software, FrontPage. It was also refreshing to read about the ownership of librarians who co-designed this system. The success of this project was the collaboration between the librarians and web developers.
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