Week 14 - Hard Coding

Today we got practical experience in Hard Coding HTML. Building on the knowledge we gained during the investigation, we now got hadns on with HTML.

I was confident when starting the task, especially with the basic principles such as starting and ending tags. I remember the basic syntax and rules of HTML from previous experience as well as things like saving in HTML and the need to spell everything as if I was American (for instance COLOR instead of COLOUR which is a common issue).

I was quickly suprised however by things I had not yet come across or failed to remember. Components like the header styles using <h1> or <h6> etc was a new way of formatting for me. I'd also completely forgotten about breaks (<br>) and paragraphs (<p>) so these were useful for me to understand.

I would like to get more confident in more complex combinations, for instance giving different elements different alignments and adding extra values to something like the body tag (I started looking at text colour changes which are added in the description of the body)

Over the coming weeks we will tackle Dreamweaver and use knowledge learnt here to help fix problems we have with the code there.