handcoding basics
Constanza, as we did not cover the planned content in week 3 - I have just moved all content to week 4 now - leaving you a few notes here on what we covered :-)
lesson content
- handcoding with TacoHTML
- workflow considerations
- saving and previewing pages
- switching between applications
lesson notes
- for best workflow - always keep your HTML page open in the browser (Firefox) as well as in TacoHTML
- any changes you make in your HTML and CSS will need to be saved before they can be previewed in the browser
- to switch between your coding program and the browser - get used to using the keyboard shortcut (hold ‘apple’ key and press tab) - this will save you a lot of time :)
- while you are getting used to the CSS properties and rules - go slowly and test/preview as you go on
- make sure to keep your HTML code as well as your CSS code as tidy as possible as this will make it easier to spot any problems or coding errors
- use the ‘organise tags’ function (top menu > syntax) to keep your HTML code tidy
- save - save - save! :-)
Fantastic work tonight, Constanza :) you were on a flow :)
if you can now make sure to practise a lot - we can soon start doing some great things with our CSS :) keep things very simple for now though - don’t worry about how it looks; the important thing will be to get it all working…!
a few reminders:
how to compress a folder for email attachment
to style your pages
happy coding :)
Comment by prisca — May 15, 2008
about today’s lesson plan: as we didn’t get to do this today - I will reshuffle a few things on the outline and we will cover this next week ;) so don’t worry about those notes for now ;)
Comment by prisca — May 15, 2008
Constanza
Just looking through your files - and you’re not doing bad at all! Almost there :) I will edit your code and email you the files back so you can see exactly where your code went wrong.
Just a few points for your reference:
always keep all files as organised as possible, in their correct directories:
see screenshot
to align any element within your HTML - you should use CSS, not add additional tags into the XHTML!! see screenshot
Comment by prisca — May 29, 2008
I went through your pages and I understood what I have to do now. I will be able to use “my” tags without problems from now onwards… I will practice them.
Comment by Constanza Martinez — May 29, 2008