72, of all the numbers, 72

The number 72 is very important because that is the number of DPIs computers display. What is DPI? Dots Per Inch. Photoshop os important to web design? Wha? But yes, it is indeed, very important. Photoshop can help you shop photos. Haha, just kidding. Photoshop can be used to create buttons for web pages, and as we all know, those are very helpful. Thats about all we've learned on photoshop so far. On our webpages, we usually make a prototype. That way we can see what our webpage is going to look like, if it will work, and all these things that we can always go back and fix. Improve. Update. Etc. Because the most important element in a personal webpage is user ability. It must be simple and clear enough for the user to understand and not get lost, etc. But it must also capture their attention without distracting them from the purpose from the website. Its a very complex balance.

LINKS, not zelda, LINKS

Ok, so links are a bit tricky. There are quite a few such as links to different pages, links within the page from one section to another, links to different URL's, picture links, email links, and that's about all I can remember right now. There's probably a few more. Links can be created by <.A HREF="chosen URL">text to click on to go to link<./A> To do email links you have to <.A HREF="mailto:emailaddress@whatever.com">email address to go to email link <./A>

Images take some serious time my friend. But I guess with time and repetition, the skill will come. Anyway, to create images on a page you start by <.IMG SRC="filenameofpic" Border="chosen border" Height="chosen height" Width="chosen width" Align="left, center, or right"> Within the angle brackets you can also add horizontal or vertical space by putting VSPACE="chosen vertical space" or HSPACE="chosen horizontal space"

A few other codes are:

Bold text <.B.>text you want bolded<./B>

Italicized text <.I.>text you want italicized <./I.>

A break in the text <.BR.>

To change the font color <.FONT style="color:#6 digit color code;">text to be colored<./FONT.>

To make a paragraph <.P.>type paragraph<./P.>

*ignore the "." in the angle brackets. They're only there to keep the computer from reading it as actual HTML code

HTML coding. Is its difficult and why?

Html coding is difficult. It's just hard to remember all the < > things and all the different codes that mean different things. And if you make one typing error, it screws everything up! You could have the wrong color, no break in the text, no picture, no background, the wrong kind of list, the wrong part in bold, forgetting to end a paragraph, etc etc etc etc etc. THE LIST IS ENDLESS!!!!!!!! I don't really think there is an advantage to my person knowing this cursed code. lol. However, I think it would be awesome to create our own web page. Just give us a week or so and let us do JUST that and see what kind of web pages you get. You cold make it a dating service for nerds. Or a private detective for hire. Or a magical world where you invent a brand new culture, language, traditions, etc. I think that could get VERY interesting indeed...

Learning HTML code

It was hard. And I don't like it much. With the whole < > thing and the
I don't even remember what
does. I know that

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gives you this long line. But
, hhmmmm.... Anyway, pretty much before every little thing you do you have to type < > AND when you're done with it you have to finish it Pah.
But I am getting the hang of it. Slowly but surely. I like the whole change color thing. I'm still not exactly sure how to do it, but that little personalizing factor is nice.
How it can be taught better? There's really not much more you can do. It's just kindof a learn as you do thing. That's about it