Chapter Three

Rating css on the Zen Garden:
Group: Stephanie Davis, Me

The html was all the same and looked very organized and neat (unlike most of what i've seen).
I could not see the specific css, but the generic css looked all the same, set out for each section/div in the html.

Bad Design first.
Retro Theater by Eric Rogé (On right ->)

We both agreed that this design was not a good one. The information is not formatted well and takes a long time to find. The scrolling can be confusing because the text is limited to the movie screen but controlled by the right side scrolling bar. All the text tends to look the same and it is hard to decipher where you are on the page. It was unpleasant to look at after a few minutes.
There is also little to no defined navigation other than scrolling.







Good Design/css.
Kyoto Forest by John Politowski (On Right ->)

This page works very well with simple design and good colors/graphical images. The information is well and simply organized with easy to read headers. The menu is left-side which makes for very easy and comprehensible navigation. All the text is easy to read and well placed/aligned.

Chapter Two

After a week of HTML/XHTML review i think i'm getting a better hang of this.
We just started simple scripts and i've used the two simple examples in my new index page.

I started a page called home.html that turned into my index page in my 409 directory.
It links to my homework assignments and this blog so it is an easy page to use as an index.
I chose the Left side layout with a navigation area because it seemed the most traditional.
It is very easy to interpret and easy to convey information through.

Index Page

One of the scripts i put in it acts as my navigation bar, it is a drop down menu with a list of all the pages i made (or example that were provided by the teacher).

Chapter One

I reviewed HTML and XHTML and saw no difference except that XHTML has a different header and stuff. I forget the difference really except that XHTML seems to be a lot more strict.

I had some problems doing the styles because of the loose syntax at times but got it to verify soon enough. Doing paragraphs and unordered lists is not really that hard i suppose...

Here is the first assignment pages:

HTML
XHTML
image courtesy of www.grocersdaughter.com

I used css to change the font style and the ingredients heading (which isn't a heading but a paragraph, but oh well).

If there is one thing i've learned though, it's that HTML4 doesn't require/want stand alone tags like to have a "/" at the end, but XHTML does (at least i think).