Build Your Website Level I at LVS Online

This course is a beginners course of using (X)HTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to create your own webpages. I chose this course because it was an on-line course so I didn't have to actually travel to a classroom. It also allowed me to do the lessons, time permitting, as long as they were completed by the final day. That fit into my schedule nicely. Although I think next time I'll try to start a little earlier.

I've learned a lot taking this class and feel I have the basic knowledge for creating websites. I'm looking forward to taking the Build 2 and Build 3 classes to expand on the knowledge I've already learned.

I've also learned (the hard way) that missing a end tag (like <p>) can cause havoc when trying to validate your page. Even more frustrating is missing a ; at the end of a class definition or adding an extra : where it doesn't belong. You can stare at the code over and over and not see your slight mistake. I had a incident with Lesson 4 where I just couldn't get a center class to work. I was getting extremely frustrated. So I forwarded the html page to a friend who is also taking this class and within 2 minutes she was able to point out my extra : in the class definition. Once I removed that, everything worked as expected. When it's not working it tends to be the little things.

Below are the lessons included in this class along with a link to my homework page for that lesson.