User:Vtaylor/Willard/CIS 89A HTML and CSS/Summary 2

Summary 2. HTML Basics

Great work everyone. Although the course is moving very quickly because of the short semester, it if great to see that so many of you are really contributing to making this a terrific learning experience for everyone.

Coding projects
You can use any text editor. You are not limited to using Glitch. The requirement is to submit your coding projects as their web address, preferably the view that a visitor sees.. The html and css files must be in a web-accessible directory on a network server. How you accomplish that is up to you. Glitch handles some of that process for you.

Each coding project should be a new project file so you focus on the requirements for the module elements and attributes. Most of the requirements should be visible on the page display. That way, we know that you are using the tags correctly in your code.

head title tag - The title tag text appears at the top of the frame around the display window. It is also used in the page summary displayed by search engines. Glitch provides a default. Change the text to represent your project.

Comments in html and css - Comments are documentation. As you build larger sites, it is important to included notes about your work. You are making a lot of decisions as you write your code that guide your choices. Include the information as comments. This information will be a big help to you or someone else who has to make changes to the code in the future.

Cascading styles - The browser uses the style that is closest to the content. If there are style definitions for the paragraph (p) tag in the css file and in a style tag in the html head and in the p tag in the html body, the browser "cascades" through these and would display the paragraph using the style in the p tag - closest to the content to be displayed. This provides a lot of flexibility. It can save a lot of coding and changing is styling is shared throughout the site.

Coming up... '''Module 3. Text'''

A few words - Text - Most web pages include a lot of text. It is important to know how to format text for readability and searching. Most visitors skim to find the information they are looking for. So it is important that pages of text are attractive and well organized.