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.
- It took a while to figure out how to change font colors, which probably shouldn’t have. You can use the word for a color or you can use RGB numbers.
- Google Sites wasn’t kidding when they said that they limited the HTML we can use. They wouldn’t even let me edit the background colors. I tried to include some tags, and after I had put them in, Google Sites said it wouldn’t let me.
So, it was time to go back to the drawing board and back to my inquiry questions. Would Weebly allow me to edit HTML, more than Google would?
It turns out, the answer is yes! I looked around and found out where to go, then did some exploring. If I go to the Theme page after clicking "edit site," I go to the bottom left screen and click "edit HTML/CSS." And, voila! ...26 pages of code.
So it looks like it'll be time to go back to my inquiry questions again - are there forums to help me figure out this 26 pages of code?
I started "school" with the "chapters" of W3Schools HTML courses. I'm a few chapters in now and I've been applying my learning to the Notepad. It's not just editing text features at this point, but the whole webpage! I should be able to import this into Weebly.
...and when I mess up, W3 schools has a forum where I can ask people questions! It's perfect!