Reading Notes for Week 8

W3schools HTML Tutorial

This is a Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) tutorial to teach you how to build websites and use HTML. One of the things that I really liked was that they give you the opportunity to practice on screen. The "Try it Yourself" sections allow you to experiment with HTML. While some may have found the HTML introduction to be rather simple, I thought it did a great job at explaining what HTML is, tags, and other HTML information. Like I mentioned before, I really like the "Try it Yourself" portions so Chapter 4:Examples was the most informative to me. The entire tutorial breaks things down into several subsections, from styles to hyperlinks, and explains them in an understandable manner. I also thought the sections on how to make lists, tables, and forms were interesting. I thought the "Quick List" of already prepare HTML is very useful.

W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial

This is another tutorial from the group that provided the HTML tutorial which I wrote about above. CSS makes working with HTML easier and explains how it should be displayed. It explains the three parts of CSS syntax, the selector, the value, and the property. This tutorial also breaks down the topics of CSS nicely and makes it easy to learn. It seems a bit more complex, (definitely more than the HTML tutorial) but it does a good job at breaking down key issues.

HTML Cheatsheet

This sheet is a simpler version of the HTML tutorial in that it doesn't go into explanations of each tag section. It is similar to what was found at the end of the W3schools HTML tutorial. This is just a easy guide of HTML and will probably be best served by the computer to have handy when working with HTML.

Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system

The article explains situations in which librarians were in charge of creating web guides for library users but the results of what they created were often insufficient. There was miscommunication regarding their content and intent. Content Management System is the "process of collecting, managing, and publishing content" and established to assist librarians to effectively create online content and websites without the problems they faced with Frontpage. One of the features of the system is collaborative tagging of information and allowing multiple users to post content.