Week 5! The semester is passing quickly, right? By this point you ought to have a solid bit of HTML structure for your website and you have been shown the basics for including content. CSS, as I have said repeatedly, is where most of the hard work will be in this class.
At the beginning of the week we talked a bit about colors. I'm adding a new HTML document called "resources.html" for you to refer to throughout the course. I will add links here to useful tools and tutorials as we go.
You should notice that I have moved my weekly index links to the sidebar by adding a <nav> element inside my <aside> element.
This week we also started using special characters. As you already know, some characters have special meaning in HTML, such as angle brackets < >, and if we want those characters to appear on the screen (without triggering an HTML function), then we have to code them differently. There are many places you can go on the Web for this information, but I'll point you here to one site I think is comprehensive and easy to use: Scripting OK.
I'd like you to be diligent in using these special HTML codes as you add content to your web pages. You will lose points for entering broken HTML; fortunately, the code checker we started using this week should help a lot with that!
Speaking of the Nu HTML Checker, you should get in the habit of making regular use of code-checkers as you write. It's not a bad idea to start each class by checking your code from the previous day so you know what corrections you ought to make by the end of the bell. On Fridays, of course, you will want to run the code-checker each time you add new code, so that the code I grade over the weekend passes the checker!