CSS Tutorials

Today’s blog consists of CSS Tutorials. The assignment given is to search for three good CSS Tutorials. The following sites were listed in our text but I found it appropriate to stray from the book and find other sites that were also just as helpful: http://www.echoecho.com/css.htm, http://www.w3schools.com/css/, and http://www.davesite.com/webstation/css/. In my search I found many tutorials but the following three stood out the most:

·         http://www.quackit.com/css/

This site provides some good insight into CSS. There are a great deal of tutorials, codes, and some examples.

·         http://www.csstutorial.net/

This site is strictly about CSS. It starts with on introduction to CSS, then gives CSS tutorials, and then some CSS resources.

·         http://www.tizag.com/cssT/

This site is similar to the first site I found. It is very helpful to those beginning their web design career.

I would say that all of the sites listed are a great learning tool when starting to use CSS. Some have a few more things than others so I think it is important to check them all out.

Web Research

This week we were assigned to search the web for HTML and XHTML tutorials and answer a few questions pertaining to the search.

What are the URL’s of the Web sites?

-          http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

-          http://www.webheadstart.org/

Are the tutorials geared toward the beginner level, intermediate level, or both levels?

-          The first site is geared towards bot levels. Having only taken one Web class prior to this one, I am new to making Web site. This site had tutorials from HTML to TCP/IP. There were the basic but then there was also advanced sections.

-          The second site also gears towards both levels. This site only provides tutorials for HTML, XML, and XHTML. HTML tutorials were basic; however the XHTML provided some advanced tutorials.

Would you recommend these sites to others? Why or why not?

-          I would recommend the first site because it was very informational and helpful. It didn’t just explain how to do the coding but it gave the opportunity to do the coding yourself.

-          I would recommend this site because it does provide some insight into coding. Unlike the first this one doesn’t provide do it yourself opportunities.

List one or two concepts that you learned from each of the tutorials.

-          By my understanding XHTML is a more refined version of HTML and has more strict rules.

-          Was not sure what Doctype Declarations where prior to this class, but now know that Doctype Declarations officially state which version and XHTML compatibility level that you're using in your Webpage.