Wrestling with HTML...

Tonight I have been tackling the basics of HTML in order to have a better understanding of how programs like Flash and Dreamweaver work...the way I look at it, you have to work from the bottom up, so I thought looking closer at the foundations of these tools would be beneficial...

I've also just signed up to 'del.icio.us', so I've achieved some of the stuff that I proposed to do in the last entry!! I'm getting there, slowly but surely!...

Anyway, I now know how to create a page with text and images, which is fabulous ;-) This means that (hopefully) we will have a better understanding of how to construct our website, and how to join our individual pages and images together...

Adrian tells me that we have to pay for the use of URL's, but I'm sure there's some way that the University server can let us on there without payment...if anyone can fill me in on this, please do...

I drew up a small file containing some screenshots of the HTML files I've been playing around with, as well as some notes on HTML basics, and sent it to the members of my group for their perusal!...I didn't realise you could do so much with 'Notepad' on the PC!! I'm pleasantly surprised at the results I got tonight, although there were a few hairy moments when I couldn't get the images to appear and I was getting frustrated!! Then I realised I had to enter the exact location of the image and not just the name of the JPEG...D'uh!!

Anyway, that's what I've been doing all day...getting a piece of blue-coloured text to say 'This page is amazing' on a marble background with a dodgy close-up picture of my crows-feet-plagued eyes...lovely...

Ok, so, I shall continue to explore HTML, and figure out how to link our pages in a seamless, slick, professional manner...it'll be beautiful, people...

Thank you, and goodnight...