Computers in Education
Topic Description
As a graphic design major, understanding web technology is essencial due to the fact to the growing popularity of web media. Thus, a thorough knowledge of html coding would be a very valuable skill to posess. While WYSIWYG applications like Dreamweaver and Flash are making web development more convenient, a good understanding to the coding going on in the background will give you a great advantage.
But who has the capacity (or time for that matter) to memorize dozens of different tags and syntaxes. That is where online tutorials really come in handy. Not quite sure how to insert the syntax for a link in html? Bam, simply type in “link” and “html” into Google and you instantly find out it starts <a href=”…>. Google is king when it comes to figuring out those annoying little tweeks in coding.
Available Tutorials (There are endless on Google, but here are three that I picked out):
http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/introduction.asp A simple basic guide for beginners to html. Useful if you’re just starting out.
http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm EXTREMELY handy little table that lists all important tags for coding. Perfect for when the exact syntax “just happens to slip your mind”. Handy reference tool that I might even consider printing out for future convenience.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp CSS is a supplement to html that can make coding so much easier and user-friendly if you can understand how to use it. This is a handy reference guide if I ever want to use stylesheets to apply to a website design.
Evaluation
I particularly found the second tutorial above partularly handy. The first one was a bit basic for me as I have learned some html in classes before. The second one was just simple format and easy to use. Which I feel is what a good tutorial should be. I can find the information I’m looking for quickly without having to read paragraph after paragraph of text.
The CSS tutorial I also felt was fairly straight forward as well and great if I just need to look up syntax or tags.
With the convenience and ease of Google, it is just so easy for me to find any information I need online. I just have to make sure the site I visit is reliable.
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