Week 8

W3 Schools HTML Tutorial
- HTML stands for: Hyper Text Markup Language
- What is markup language? It is a set of markup tags, and markup tags describe web pages.
- HTML documents are more commonly known as web pages. We use browsers to read HTML documents.
- HTML editors, such as Dreamweaver, are used to edit HTML.
- HTML elements include the following parts: a start tag, the element content, and an end tag.

I’m actually planning to take a course at work on how to use Dreamweaver. I’m really interested to see what it teaches me, and maybe after I learn how to use it I will practice a little at home. I have the entire Adobe Creative Suite, but only ever use Photoshop since I don’t know how the use the other applications!

W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial
Just a few of the things I learned while reading this tutorial:
CSS-Cascading Style Sheets
CSS defines how HTML elements are to be displayed.
- There are three ways to insert a style sheet: external, internal, and inline style. An external style sheet is preferred when the style is applied to numerous pages. An internal style sheet should be used when a single document has a unique style. An inline style should be used infrequently and with caution.
- CSS background properties include: background, background-attachment, background-color, background-image, background-position, and background-repeat.
- The difference between a serif font and a sans-serif font (Times New Roman is the former and Arial is an example of the latter.)
- A CSS box model is a box that wraps around HTML elements, which consists of margins, borders, padding, and content.

I like that these tutorials give readers the opportunity to try each exercise throughout the lesson with the ‘try it yourself’ button.

HTML Cheatsheet
HTML is like a foreign language to me. This will be a great help if I ever need to enter HTML tags for a website.

Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system
This article shows what a good partnership between web and library professionals can produce. I like how they made it possible for information to be added to the webpage by librarians without an intricate knowledge of web developing. This way the librarian can concentrate on content without getting stuck along the way with trivial website difficulties that the web designer was trained to handle. This is a collaboration that can benefit all types of libraries. Depending on the size and budget of the library, the web designer could be contracted out when needed (for smaller budgets) or could be hired by the library for a full-time partnership (for larger budgets).