Validate me

The next part to the week 3 tute. WWW Consortium validation!

Yikes, didn't really expect that I would need to run the page I made in the last post through the validator... silly really, considering this tute is about standards and correct coding! :o

Expecting the worse, there weren't many errors. 3 errors and 4 warnings. All 3 errors and 3 of the warnings related to character encoding and doctypes. In layman terms, the webpage didn't start with the correct document headers as outlined by the w3c's HTML 4.01 transitional standards.

Unfortunately that was one area that was overlooked in the tutorial.

You are probably wondering about the 1 warning I haven't talked about yet. Well it turns out I miss used the <b> bold tag and used it as a block level element >.< shouldn't use it to surround a chunk of tags. Ah well.

Yay! Some coding!

Finally getting around to doing a little coding in this subject. Even if it is rather simple.

The tutorial was terrific! Very nicely laid out, easy to follow and very informative. Everything a learner needs to understand the basics of HTML (and a little CSS).

I was even impressed if the notes on possible shortcomings and things to look out for as well as tips and links to other resources.

So after following some of the tips and tags, i came up with this:


(gah! i wish this blog would just display the image in its original format and size...)

I already knew a lot of the tags described in the tutorial and didn't expect to learn much more, but i was surprised to discover several tags i never knew existed!

Tags such as the definition list, quote, and attributes for the horizontal rule might just be handy in the future ;)

I think HTML is still the simplest and the best. Modern scripting languages might enable people to develop funky looking sites, but sometimes the simplest of things are the best. There is nothing like a clean, well laid out site.

Obviously WYSIWYG editors, such as that in a blog are a great way to quickly make content, but even knowing a small amount of HTML can be far more powerful in what you are able to achieve.

I have returned

Well, not really. I was always here, but as you probably noticed, I haven't posted in a long time.

Why? Not sure. Don't really have a lot to talk about, and constantly just posting about tutes is boring...too many are doing that.

I think of a blog as something "unique", so doing all the same ol' same ol' as everyone else in this course would be quite a drag on the tutors...I'd hate to sit through dozens of blogs with very similar content. That's not to say my blog is somehow different...it's hard trying to be "original" all the time.

So I come back to the original point; not posting for a while. Procrastination isn't going to help me pass this subject, so it's time i get stuck back into it.