New to CSS and Div Tags…
A brief history about my interest in web development… at the age of twelve, I picked up web design as a hobby. I started creating my very first website in Geocities with their page builder. I would just drag, drop, upload pictures and place them wherever and Geocities would do the rest of the work. I would visit random personal websites, and if I had liked anything (i.e. their colored scrollbar) I would view their source and try to figure out which code it was. Eventually, I taught myself enough to be able to create my own website out of simple, basic HTML. I then transferred to Angelfire to further push and advance my knowledge, as Angelfire did not have a page builder which forced me to start from scratch. Back then, I did not know what CSS was, nor did I know how to create CSS stylesheets. I would go page per page, creating and editing codes which was extremely tedious and time consuming. If I forgot to to put in a “>” closing my tags, all hell would break lose and nothing would work; I would spend a copious amount of time going through each page looking for that missing “>.” No, it was not fun at all.
I’m new to CSS and I had only started learning about how to create stylesheets last week in Web Overview. I am, for lack of a better word, glad that we were taught how to create stylesheets and how to put it into our pages with just ONE code. I’m quite relieved that when I update future websites, I only have to update one file (the stylesheet). Although it can get confusing and almost seem impossible to understand, and a little disheartening when you spend such a long time on a page only to view it and see nothing working, I am most definitely enjoying this course. Lately, I’ve been working on creating a restaurant website for class as an assignment; we are to use div tags to create our menu, submenu, and content. We were recently taught how to create three columns side by side, or two on top of one. I have never been taught how to create columns or create layouts from div tags, so this is all new (but useful) to me. Also, we were taught how to let the text wrap (or float) around the image using CSS. This is quite different from the way I used to align images (back then, I would manually align each image either left or right using <img src=”url” align=”right”>) which was also quite cumbersome. Out with the bad old, cumbersome ways and in with the better, easier, new ways!
