Media yanR

So yet another week of uni has passed, im sitting in my room on a sunday and thinking to myself THE BLOG. All week I have thought about putting another post up here but it generally takes me until the last minute to achieve any thing. During this week we learnt about HTML, XML and CSS. Pretty much these are just a bunch of fancy acronyms to try and make the www all cool. The best thing with acronyms is that people always figure out a way to make them funny. This ensures that we will all learn them very fast. I mean I definitely know How To Meet Ladies so some would say im rather proficient in some forms of HTML. But seriously HTML stands for Hyper Test Markup Language. Its the way in which you write text so a machine reads it and converts what it sees into what you are trying to create. Possibly the best thing about HTML and the web, in my opinion, is how you can view the source code on every page you go to. By clicking on the source code you can have a look at the HTML that was used to create the site. This is a great way to learn and brush up on some HTML skills of your own. We also learnt a but about XML which means Extensible Markup Language and CSS which stands for Cascading Style Sheet. We didn't really go into XML much but CSS is a style sheet which you can use to format your webpage.

HTML + CSS = Magic

Whilst on my journey to learn more about HTML I found a really useful website. It has a list of HTML tags, examples, ideas and even has a color list. The link can be found HERE.

After learning about HTML in the lecture and thinking OMG, WTH, ROFLcopter (acronyms people acronyms this is the age of technology and shortening everything down) I turned up to the tute knowing it was going to be a long 2 hours. We had to write a proposal for an assignment in HTML making a very basic webpage. This proved to be frustrating as like many other times I have written HTML I got the code wrong somewhere and had to scour my page looking for it. Finally I found what was wrong and it ended up looking half decent.

Any ways its about time that I go put some time into readings and readings and probably .... some more readings. Remember to close you tags people. It could save hours off your life.
Peace