Writing a personal blog alongside my business is a good exercise. It'll help me analyse my progress, and hopefully provide you readers with insights into freelancing, development, and business. If you have any feedback, let me know in the comments, or shoot me an email.
After seeing quite a few websites with dynamic content based on the domain name, I wanted to give it a try to see how difficult it was to achieve.
Here’s what I came up with: DueABootin.com
As it turns out, it wasn’t very difficult at all! (Especially being hosted through WebFaction, they make it even easier!)
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Ok, this is a little off-topic, but now that I’ve had my iPhone for a few weeks and have gotten past the initial excitement and installation (and eventual removal) of all the show-off apps, I have a good collection of useful ones :) (and maybe still a few show-off ones… ;) ) The list is as follows:
Ok, so I promised you the basic structure of an HTML page. So here is it:
< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>My First HTML Page</title> </head> <body> <p>This is the first paragraph on the page.</p> <p>This is the second paragraph on the page, and it's a little bit longer than the first one. Try resizing your window to make it narrower to see the text wrap but maintain the paragraph spacing.</p> </body> </html> |
What better place to start than at the beginning? Because web development involves quite a lot of jargon, I figure for the first few posts, I’ll just explain what things are. That way, once we start to get into it a bit more, you’ll know what I mean if I use any jargon (I’ll try not to use too much jargon, and just terminology where appropriate!).
So you’ve heard that there’s this stuff called HTML that you use to make web pages… but what is it, and what does HTML even stand for? Read the rest of this entry »
Welcome to my site! I’ll try and post as regularly as time allows. The purpose of this site is to give beginners to web development advice and tips about how to use HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Stylesheets. In each post I’ll aim to be covering something new, but if the topic Read the rest of this entry »
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