HTML-making a webpage tutotials

Now this I find much more interesting and engaging than "chat".


For Module 3 we were asked to go to PageTutor.com and complete 26 lessons on the basics of html hand-coding & create a webpage whilst following the tutorial. To have a peek at my end result go to Nerida's Everything Is webpage
I used the lessons and just modified the outcomes by using some of my own photos and words. I found this website really easy to learn from and it was great to be able to have a quick refresher in the basics. I decided to just spend one night on this task and leave it at that-because as usual I'm lagging again :-(



This is a screen shot of part of my webpage...


I just completed Ned 11 last SP, in which we had to produce a complete and fully functional website in 12wks(I was a complete newbie) but happy to say I was very pleased with what I learnt and achieved in that time, and the fact that I managed to come out with a distinction. So I had all ready tried my hand at coding (I really enjoy it) can be very frustrating and challenging at times,but webpage design is the main reason I decided to get a degree in Internet Studies. A site I found very helpful when completing that unit was w3schools.com for html & for examples of CSS.

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             ///\\
             (@ @)
  +----oOO----(_)-----------+
  |      EVERYTHING IS      |
  |     Kevin  &  Nerida    |
  | Happy Valentines Day'09 |
  +-----------------oOO-----+
            |__|__|  
             || ||
            ooO Ooo

This is something new I learnt ~ that if you enclose a text picture such as the one above in <pre> </pre> tags it prevents the browsers from collapsing the picture into a big pile of golboldy gook.

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Mother duties call- so I will attempt to return later to continue my reflections on html and post the results of the validation test of my webpage :)

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ICQ Chat Task

First of all, I did not have Icq, have used MSN in the past briefly(didn't really hook me- could be the dial-up). So I downloaded and installed
ICQ didn't find this difficult.


Very unimpressed by the fact that icq took over my homepage by default though (How Rude is that?)


I already had a google account set up so that was one less thing I needed to do, so I checked the webct board and found a discussion stating that a group of students were hooking up for a chat at 7pm Sunday nights. So on January 25th I logged online and sent a message to Tess, who kindly added me to the list so I could join the group discussion.(thanks Tess & everyone else involved in the chat that night).

The chat moved fast and was quite interesting- I lagged a little as I only have a dial-up connection at the moment(hopefully I will have my satellite broadband installed in about 3 weeks). One thing I did notice is- that with icq the lag was shorter and more manageable, when I have tried to chat on MSN I lagged behind that much that it really was pointless to even bother(not to mention frustrating) using it as a method of communication and I found myself just using my mobile and texting instead.


I'm not a very chatty person and I really don't have much sparetime, even if I was. That said, I can totally understand why many people do use chat rooms as a way to communicate; it doesn't cost you any extra money, you can hold multiple conversations at once & you can still be working on your computer (multi-task plus).


When I finally get broadband I will try out msn & icq to chat with friends in otherplaces see if its more satisfying then- but for now it still hasn't hooked me...