Hi, I’m Anna and I have just started MA Web Design and Content Planning Course at the University of Greenwich. In this blog, I’m going to share my journey on this path. Not only because it’s a part of our coursework, but also because it will be so useful for me to fix these new steps on my learning of web design.
This week was all about how the web works. We started learning some basics of HTML during the lecture. The most important thing to remember about HTML is that it gives structure to the document and meaning to the content. As I come from a design background and I’m totally new to the code side of the web, for me learning HTML is like learning a new foreign language. So many things I need to remember, that I’m ready to start making word cards trying to remember all these tags and their meaning. Our course leaders say it all comes with practice, so I hope I’ll manage this. The memory cards can be easily replaced with this website which I found very helpful for me as a beginner. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element
In order to complete our first task – write my own HTML-only 4-pages web page I had to do some reading on https://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/ and to pass an HTML fundamentals course on Pluralsight https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/html-fundamentals/table-of-contents which both were very helpful. I was so proud to see when lines of code were transformed into a website that is actually online. For me, the most tricky part of the task was to set all links to work correctly and I’m happy that after some mistakes and rewriting I finally did it!
The two other very important things while working on the website are to keep the organization of my files and folders clear and ALWAYS validate my code on https://validator.w3.org/ before submitting the task online.