Final Blog (#8)

One very important thing I learned from a classmate this semester is how better to understand the differences between the active and hover categories for the "li" when writing CSS. If it weren't for this classmate, I'm fairly sure I would have an even worse grade in this class. Thanks to Kirstin Sours for your help with this and many, many other things this semester!

I'm sure it's quite obvious, but there is no doubt that I need to learn more about HTML and CSS. I went ahead and searched on amazon.com, and I found the text, "HTML, XHTML, & CSS For Dummies: Edition 13" by Ed Tittle and Jeff Noble. The reason I think this would be a good book for me to read is, because I believe it would serve to teach me in more depth, yet with more ease, about how to properly write CSS and HTML than some other texts might do. I tend to learn a bit differently than other students, and I can really appreciate certain tools that help me remember stuff, such as the CRAP principals of design. The initials that spell the word crap is why I so easily remember each principal.  "CSS For Dummies" has an entire chapter (Chapter 3) that is dedicated to doing just that. The Chapter is entitled, "Proper Planning Prevents Poor Page Performance". Because each word in the title begins with the letter p, I will automatically remember that principal. I believe that if I read "CSS For Dummies", I would be a better CSS and HTML code writer, and in turn, become a better web designer.

Blog#7

After reading Hampe, I would define "documentary" as the objective presentation of facts through film technology without the insertion of fictional matter. A documentary film would differ from a non-documentary film, because a non-documentary film could ethically be changed by it's author or authors even if the changes alter the factual elements of the film.