Summarize and Reflect Week 4

This week’s readings from the book started with a review in Chapter 3 of what web pages are, what HTML editors do, and basic commands found in HTML editors. It covered adding colors, changing fonts, and the use of tables, all of which we did in the class. The sections on layers and frames helped to explain how they are used in a more in depth manner than what was covered in class. In class we learned how to create links to other pages and the reading showed how to create email links. Chapter 4 of the book went into the behind the scenes factors in web design. Rather than designing specifics it dealt with organizing the files correctly, how to name files, saving files etc. The value of planning ahead was covered along with the importance of considering who is going to view your site when you formulate your plan. Servers, hosting, and domain names were covered in the readings and were expanded on in the diigo readings. The first diigo reading started as a review of HTML and a lot of the items we already covered in class. The new information was at the end of first reading. The article explained meta tags, how to get your site online and how to get people to look at your site. The second reading was how to write for a website and included case studies of sites which the author redesigned. This reading was good common sense information I will turn to when I start designing my own site. I bookmarked it. The last reading compared hiring someone to build your site, doing it “brick by brick” or using a website building service. The article read more as an advertisement for the website Site Build Us.