Into to Html

Intro to HTML

When I found out that we were going to be making websites with literally nothing but Notepad, I was a little sketchy. I didn’t see how it would be possible to create a quality website without the aid of programs like Dreamweaver to do all the nasty code-work for me. Throughout the course, though, HTML was revealed to me. I learned about all of the basic things you need to know when creating a website. Even CSS was revealed to me. The best part about it is that it all makes sense. All of the information I have taken in over the past few weeks has stuck. I feel like I now have the foundation of knowledge to make a website successfully.

Knowing the basics of HTML allows me to be able to attack different projects from literally any angle I want to. Basic ideas such as knowing how to lay out divisions, which allows for separation of content, is an example of a key concept we learned in class. Linking was also a very key point we learned. It seems like half of the time I spent making my website, I spent creating and editing links. Linking is a very valuable thing though, considering any website is bound to have multiple pages, but the user only has one monitor. Practical and user-friendly linking of content is a highly-stressed concept we learned.

When constructing any website, for any reason, Krug tells us that is must be constructed like a billboard going by at 60MPH. A common mistake in web design is when one creates a website with the intent that a user will carefully browse over all of your content. This is the bad way to go about making a website. The correct way to design your page(s) is to make them uncluttered, use as few words as you can get away with, and make your information easy to access. This goes back to the linking thing. We need to make sure that the user can easily navigate around on your site, and not get buried in information. If the user gets annoyed, there’s a good chance they’ll leave your site and never come back.

When I was creating my website, the first question I asked myself is what sort of theme I wanted. Did I want to focus more on