HTML Tutorial-
This website is a tutorial of how to use HTML. It allows the visitor to the site practice by entering text and then generating from HTML to see the format created. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and it allows the user to create "markup tags" to display on their pages. In learning how to use HTML they suggest creating content in a plain text document creator (such as Notepad). Prior to creating the content of your text, you must "tag" beginning and endings of paragraphs, links, images, etc. It seems that with HTML you're creating commands to how things will appear in their final format. This tutorial seems to be a very helpful resource to users in learning to create HTML documents. It provides step by step instructions.
HTML Cheatsheet-
This page is just that, its a cheatsheet for users on HTML commands. It provides users the proper HTML commands that can be used in creating a document. This site is intended to be used by HTML page creators or anyone who might need help with what codes to use in formatting their document.
CSS Tutorial-
This tutorial teaches the user how to create Cascading Style Sheets. This is an alternative to using HTML since HTML was never intended to use tags. CSS saves time and work and it also defines how HTML is displayed. There are three ways of inserting a style sheet: External, Internal and Inline. CSS is offend used on background images. It seems that CSS has more impact on display and page design.
Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system, Journal article-
This article is talking about a Library website in use at Georgia State University. The page had technical and administrative difficulties because there were multiple individuals contributing to the webpage without any established structure or format. This probably happens with many organizations when there is no designated webmaster who in contributing all content to a website. After hiring a library liaison and surveying the system, they decided to move away from HTML format. The library moved towards using Content Management system instead. It allowed for better structure, access, and control. This article is very important in showing library professionals how they can better use resources to provide functional and coherent web pages that their patrons can easily access and utilize research tools.
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Your comment that "CSS has more impact on display and page design," helped me interact with the site more efficently. The site to me was helpful in the information provided.
ReplyDeleteIn response to the Beyond HTML article: I agree with you on your final point of this article. I think it is important for libraries to put more emphasis on the importance of providing people with information through web pages.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone's muddiest point this week is probably going to deal with what actual week it is, but I digress. The Beyond HTML article was a good read since it gave us an example of something that we might actually encounter in the field as librarians or archivists. We are going to have to be able to understand how to present information quickly and coherently through the web.
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