Text Editor Selection and Creating my basic HTML website.

   This post is in reference to my Challenge #3 Choose Your Weapon, tasks 2 and 3. For those of you who may be reading this post first please go back and read my first several posts. For more information about P2PU.org's free school of Webcraft please visit P2PUs School of Webcraft.

   I've tried various text editors when I first started playing around with web hosting years ago. To date I've used Notepad, Coffee Cup, various other free ones on the web, OpenOffice Suite, and I recently stumbled upon a really cool text editor called Bluefish. Out of the three I've used Bluefish is by far the coolest. It highlights the differences between different types of code with multi-colored text. Also when you're typing, it will suggest beginning and end tags and all you do is press ENTER and it will automatically input tags and all you do is type your information. All in all it's just nice. Unlike the other text editors I've tried you can save your code in different languages. In open office I could only save code in HTML or XML. Bluefish supports a lot of languages.

  Anyway, moving on...

   I made two html files. One I made to save as a basic HTML template for future use in HTML coding. The other was for the Webcraft tasks 2 and 3. When I opened my hello world.html document in my web browser, this is what I saw.

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Hello world by Susie Creamcheese.

This code was written by hand. How awesome am I?

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#2 Writing HTML by hand. Hello World

My practice sheets for handwriting basic HTML code. I began by writing the original code first, copied from the task on P2PU.

Below as noted in the picture was my first attempt. As you can see I gave up about half-way through the writing.

   My second attempt went a little bit better. After I finished I took the original paper and reviewed my writing. Check marks are where I matched up with the original, x and comments reflect my mistakes.

  After my second attempt I decided to study the original for a couple of minutes to try better to commit it to memory. Then I did my third attempt which I finally got it right. 

    Lastly I decided to do it one more time for good measure which came out fine. The omission you see scribbled out was omitted before I reviewed the original for correct answer. 

Thanks to those of you that have taken the time to view this. Please excuse the quality of the pictures and the handwriting. I look forward to seeing some of my fellow Webcrafter's completed task. 

My P2PU Webcraft Intro

    My name is Jessica, or Jess for short. I am 26yrs old, a happy wife and mother of one. I've been interested in computers and general technology since I was a kid. I was always into computers at a young age. I remember our first computer, my fathers first mobile phone, AOL on dial-up. Ah the good ole days of early consumer PCs. 

   When I became a mother and started a life of my own I realized that I had some skills, hobbies and interests but I didn't really have a real trade or anything I could say with confidence that I was actually good at. So I decided to choose something I was very interested in, in my case it was computers, software and hardware and all the good stuff in-between, and I decided to learn more about as much as I could. The major push or motivator for me though was my daughter. She was diagnosed with a severe  case of Autism when she was two and a half years old. We purchased an iPad for her for therapeutic use and I continued to learn more about Assistive Technology. 

    Coming from a family of tinkerers I always wanted to learn how things work, only instead of autos and heavy machinery, my thing is computers and other related devices. 

 I want to learn more about coding and programming languages. It would be nice to do more with web development or software development in the future. I have tweaked HTML in the past when I did some hobby web design and such. 

I'm pretty excited about learning some basics to build upon eventually. I'm looking forward to posting more about my progress. 

   

Hello!

Hello all!

  I've started this blog to use for my learning journey with P2PU.org's Webcraft School. I may also use this blog for other things like reviews for local places, product and website reviews and such later on.

I came across this site while doing some google searches for "free programming sites".   Here is the original article where I discovered P2PU.org's Webcraft site. http://mashable.com/2011/05/07/learn-to-code-online/

Many thanks to the articles author, Jolie O'Dell, for posting it online.

Anyway, today I created a profile to begin taking the Webcraft 101 challenges. Stay tuned for more on my progress.