This website was developed as a result of completing the Level 1, Building a Website, online class, offered by LVS Online Classes. Level 1 is taught by Dee Hoffman, a very qualified instructor. As the class progressed through the lessons, Deborah very closely examined each and every lesson and offered advice when necessary. The class was six weeks long and crammed full of techniques. I was constantly amazed at how quickly Ms. Hoffman responded to checking the lessons and answering questions.
If the website is explored in order, from Lesson One to the end, the viewer will be able to see the development of skills and the introduction of new techniques. I would recommend this class to anyone wanting to learn how to construct web pages.
Lesson One covered the following concepts and techniques.
Directory setup
Basic XHTML tags
Form & Function
Validating [X]HTML
Uploading to Web host
Visit Tools for Building a Webpage to see these skills
Lesson Two covers the following topics
CSS color
Background images
Validating CSS
Special formatting
Hypertext links
Visit Lesson Two webpage entitled Diane's Online Shopping Places
Don't let the short list of concepts fool you. There is tons of information in each lesson.
CSS font properties
CSS test properties
Pseudo-class selectors
Vist my webpage entitled Comfort Food in Texas to see these skills in action
Although Lesson Four list only 3 topics, this lesson causes your imagination to run wild. These techniques make the styling possibilities seem endless. It would be easy to spend the whole class time experimenting with these concepts.
Images
Classes
Divs & spans
Visit My Four-Legged Family to see some of the possibilities
Conceptually, Lesson Five was easy to understand, but when it came to putting the skills into action, that was another story. This is another lesson that you could easily spend days seeing all of the different things that happen when only one or two numbers are changed. I chose a format for my webpage that would help me see changes that were happening.
Margins & Padding
Data table
Visit Margins, Padding & Tables to see a demonstration of these concepts
The last lesson summarizes the entire course and introduces the following three concepts.
Meta tags
Web site directories
Index page
See Bum Steer Awards to see a summary demonstration of all of the lessons, plus the last listed concepts and techniques.
Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three Lesson Four Lesson Five Lesson Six
