Fourth IS Lesson : The CSS

In this lesson, we were introduced to the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). (Good news, our teacher had posted the answers for last week's tough worksheet on www.webnewmedia.com!) CSS defines how html elements are displayed. And as same as html, when we save the file, we save the name with ".css" at the end. Like "mypage.css". One of its big advantages is that it can change the appearance and the layout of multiple pages all at once. Which means that we do not need to change the appearance and layout of the multiple pages one by one.

CSS can also change the colour and fonts of words, layout and colour of a webpage...... Which means that the webpage will not be dull and boring black and white but it will be full of colours and excitement with CSS. CSS, like html, requires and has confusing code structures and we have to memorize them to use them. This is the part I hated most as I am poor at memorizing and the code structures of CSS are more complex and confusing than the code structures of html. Our teacher told us to learn more of CSS in a lesson forum in www.webnewmedia.com. From the lesson forum, I learnt some code structures or tags that change the background colour, word colour and how to embed external media.

In conclusion, CSS is harder than I thought.

Third IS lesson: The HTML

In this lesson, our teacher taught us how to build WebPages using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). First, we must open the notepad, and then type in some basic code structures. The html tag indicates that the content is html. The head tag contains page information, like the title tag (which indicates the title of the webpage.)The body tag contains the main contents and the structure of the webpage. When we save it, we must save the name with ".html" or ".html" at the end. Like "mypage.html" or "mypage.htm". In most of the cases, when we type in a code structure, it must begin with and we need to close it like . There are a lot more html code structures and our teacher taught us the basics like how to make words bigger, bold, how to put a photograph, how to put a link...... They are very confusing and I spent a long time trying to memorize them all.

Then, our teacher told us to watch a video which is called "Learn Html in 10 minutes". At first, I thought that html was a confusing and difficult thing to do. But after watching this video, I found out that html was not as difficult and confusing as I thought it would be as I had never tried and knew html before. Only the memorizing of the code structures is confusing and hard! Our teacher than told us to pair up with a person and do a simple html webpage and a super hard worksheet. The html webpage was easy to do. But the worksheet was very hard and tough. I spent almost one hour just doing ten questions!

In conclusion, html really is not as hard and confusing as I had thought.