256 reference code...and what about 256k colour? what?

Hmm, I understand the colour system in terms of bits and resolution, but I don't understand we can figure out the pattern for specific colours in a document. For example, in Photoshop, it tells you the colour for green is #F25321 etc, but it's too hard to know or play around with these numbers.

MiniSite 1, Part 1

Last week on thursday, Justin gave us an tutorial task about learning CSS. We were given a slab of text about a fictional company called Conco and our objective was to set up a xhtml document, insert and arrange the text into the body and then apply some CSS into it.

We will use the basis of this exercise to create our minisite 1, which is due on thursday 30th August.

HTML the new fashioned way 1 part 2

Today I found out that the difference between html and xhtml. Xhtml is more stricter and more cleaner. It will eventually replace html.

XHTML stands for Extensive Hyper Markup Language.

According to W3Schools.com:
XML was designed to describe data and HTML was designed to display data and by combing those strengths, it will lead to “well-formed” sites.

The Most Important Differences:
• XHTML elements must be properly nested
• XHTML elements must always be closed
• XHTML elements must be in lowercase
• XHTML documents must have one root element
To begin xhtml document, I to need plug in the doctype code before the html tag.

So I began editing my orginal website www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~pelu9930 to make it fits the laws of xhtml. I used the validation website: http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_uri+with_options

However I did encounter a lot of errors. Fortunately I was able to reduce the number of errors and eventually it validated successfully.

However I still don't understand what the first 2 lines of code after the doctype is supposed to do. I see it as a meaningless link. (See above image)

HTML the new fashioned way 1 part 1

Objectives in Class

1) Find the difference between HTML and XHTML
2) Find what CSS is all about. Visit CSS Zen Garden Website.
3) Change your current student website to xhtml.

Old fashioned HTML part 1

I've been a bit slow to grasp with html, but I've learnt the basics of a html page.
I've quickly made a rough webpage which should have been done in the 2nd week.
www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~pelu9930

I've also explored some html tutoring sites like w3schools.com and it has taught me how to make a new paragraph by using the paragraph tags. But that seems to be the only way to start a sentence on a new line!

Heading tags make the text bolder and bigger. If I wanted to find a particular part of infomation on a page will lots of infomation, I could first use anchor tag, see above image.

Linking tag: use the a href=" " tag

However I still don't know how to use the table tags to organise data. Apparently you can use it to structure website elements such as text and pictures, but its a dodgy way.

RSS feed Part 2

I've registered for feedburner and tried making that my default RSS subscriber, but it doesn't seem to work! The default atom post subscriber works the same way, so I'll stick with that.

RSS feed

I also forgot add an RSS feed option for my blog. Assessor Justin will need this. How do I do it? I will do a bit of websurfing around justin's usyd homepage and the links he has provided to see if i can find out how.

UOS Objectives

I understand that I have to come up with 2 things by the end of this UOS.

The following:
1) Website - My Site that provides written and visual infomation about my projects and links to my blog and other sites.

2) Blog - frequent documentation of projects done in other subject areas.

First Post - Testing

Hi,

I'm Peter Lu and I will be using this blog for documentation work in DECO2102. 

Stay tuned.