It was exciting to create a new website! It reminded me of my old writing days when I got a fresh blank notebook to fill with ideas and stories.
HTML coding is pretty frustrating - one little mistake can throw the whole thing off. So when Brookhouser said in the 20Time project that it’s more about getting something done than getting it perfect… well, in HTML, most of the code has to be pretty perfect. But it’s better to keep things simple and have a complete website than agonize over the minutiae.
Granted, agonizing over minutiae is most of the fun and play and making part of coding. You type all these little phrases and tags and somehow it makes something beautiful. It still amazes me that I can just press plastic keys on my keyboard, and as a result someone in another city or another country can see what I’ve created.
So, for my learning this week, I mostly spent time on Pinterest looking at different resources. Some of them were more helpful than others. My favorite site has been this one.
I was able to create a new website on Google Site and make a basic homepage, including making text bold, making text colored, inserting an image and editing its size, and inserting a link and defining the target to be in a new window.
HTML coding is pretty frustrating - one little mistake can throw the whole thing off. So when Brookhouser said in the 20Time project that it’s more about getting something done than getting it perfect… well, in HTML, most of the code has to be pretty perfect. But it’s better to keep things simple and have a complete website than agonize over the minutiae.
Granted, agonizing over minutiae is most of the fun and play and making part of coding. You type all these little phrases and tags and somehow it makes something beautiful. It still amazes me that I can just press plastic keys on my keyboard, and as a result someone in another city or another country can see what I’ve created.
So, for my learning this week, I mostly spent time on Pinterest looking at different resources. Some of them were more helpful than others. My favorite site has been this one.
I was able to create a new website on Google Site and make a basic homepage, including making text bold, making text colored, inserting an image and editing its size, and inserting a link and defining the target to be in a new window.