HTML and Dreamweaver

Lecture

In this week in lecture we looked at an introduction to mark XHTML and CSS - Multimedia and the Web. We covered topics such as types of mark up, drawbacks of presentation mark ups, and structural rules. These were the main topics discussed. On the topic of XTML and CSS, I learned that XHTML is a replacement for HTML; it is stricter than HTML and only contains logical mark up if done correctly. CSS stands for cascading style sheets; it is used with XHTML document and contains the presentational mark up. Both are plain text documents. I also learned about mark up language which I didn’t really know about before. I learned that producers of technical documentation increasingly prefer logical mark up over presentational mark up. Presentational mark up is tedious and expensive; authors can spend 15% to 50% of their time on the appearance of each page.

Tutorial

This week in tutorial we started to look at Dreamweaver, XHTML and CSS. During this session we mapped a network drive, and then went onto creating a web page. The tutorial showed how to add colour, changes text sizes and style of text. We then looked at CSS. We also looked at tagging and titles. Right at the end of the tutorial exercise we looked at adding external links to other WebPages. We also looked at the wrong way, the better way and the right way. This was confusing being taught one thing then doing it again another way and then another way.


Reflection

I am finding the lectures recently very tedious. I enjoy lectures with geene Stubbs, as I find that I learn more the way that she presents the lecture. I have worked with Dreamweaver whilst doing a BTEC National in college. So I find that I can produce a webpage using Dreamweaver quite easily and I have also used CSS before so I think that I can expand my knowledge further now whilst in the tutorials, as I can progress further on with Dreamweaver to a higher standard. I struggled with HTML coding in college so I feel that maybe in tutorials I should look more at this to see what Dreamweaver is actually changing what I am doing into HTML coding.

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