January 29-Chapters 3 and 4

Chapter 3: I've never had any experience making a web page, so I liked that this chapter called my nerves by making it seem easy and usable. I get stressed about doing new things, but the laid-back approach this book uses is comforting. I like that the book was easy to read and relate to. I found it funny that they didn't care about things such as what HTML stands for. It was refreshing to read a course book that was so carefree and not swept up in technical jargon. It was interesting to learn that making a web page could actually be fairly simple. I liked that they gave you helpful hints not only on how to make a web page, but what was the best software package for beginners and those on a tight budget. I also liked the step by step directions to making a web page. For me, someone who likes to not only follow directions, but likes to see a set of directions to be able to follow step by step, and someone who always makes lists, I really appreciated this. I found it helpful that they listed everything you would need to know to make a web page: how to format the text, change the colors, create links, add graphics, etc. This was so helpful to me because now I can just reference back to the book when I am making my own web page.

Chapter 4: In this chapter they really stressed the importance of organizing your folders, which should not be a problem for me because I am a extremely organized person, but I don't always have the greatest time with technology. The tips for naming your files was helpful because I probably wouldn't have really thought about naming my file. I never knew that you should use all lowercase letters, that you should not use characters, or that you can never use a space. The explanation of browser and server was helpful because I honestly did not really know what either of those were. I hear those words all the time, but I never really knew what they meant or did. I liked the checklist at the end of the chapter because it was a refresher of everthing you need to do. It was a review of all the things I had just read about.