verdisQUO
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HP's are generally crappy machines. The company I'm working for, has them in full. Yeah most programmers do use windows, but most write in C++ and I don't know of any decent compilers available for the Mac. I do like writing in Objective-C though. If you have PC building experience and some time on your hands, I would definetly recommend the Hackintosh route. I've build a few and boy,no difference whatsoever.
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LOL!!! Sounds like an ad I've read. It's that more people probably prefer the Mac OS compared to the Windows OS. I have both, code and write apps for both platforms. It's really about what you like. Both machines can be stable and like a rock, and both can constantly crash and have problems. I've seen and experienced both with them. Don't fall into the hype that Macs are superior machines because they're not (no disrespect to the person I quoted). Anyhoo, The Mac's are decent machines. They have some cool software that's available for it. Depending on what you use, you could find a Mac equivalent (and vice versa). It's all about just trying one of your mates or going down to a store that sells them and getting your feet wet.
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Working on building my chops. On my little web page, I have a few lists. I've done them in Html. I'm wondering should I just erase those and make them in CSS. Is it good practice to have some styles in Html, or should I just strictly do everything - style wise - in CSS? Is there still a place for stuff like this in Html? Never mind. Stupid question. Understand it now. Sorry.
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Thanks. So I guess a small mistake like that can generate multiple errors then? Edit: Ah yes I see it now. Wow, definitely miss that one.
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I figured that a good way for me to get into the habit of writing code is to validate my site. Here is my website (don't laugh, I'm learning) http://verdisquo.uuuq.com/ Got 5 validation errors. Here they are. Line 52, Column 5: end tag for "li" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified </ul> ✉ You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">". Line 51, Column 1: start tag was here <li>C++ ( Yes, I actually want to write appications) Line 52, Column 5: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: li line 51 and ul </ul> ✉ Line 71, Column 7: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: ul line 46 and body </body> ✉ Line 73, Column 7: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 14 and html </html> ✉ Line 73, Column 7: XML Parsing Error: Premature end of data in tag html line 4 </html> And here is my code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="index.css" /> <title> Adrian's playground</title> </head> <body> <h1>The Saga Continues</h1> <hr /> <h2>Where I left off:</h2> <div id="div"> <p>Right,</p> <p class="indent">So last time, I left off just scratching the surface with web design. I've slacked a bit but now my interest is now renewed. There has been some changes since the last time I was here in my life. Starting with a new baby girl. Boy oh boy... I has a kid!!!! Another minor note, is that I've switched - back - to the PC again. It was't a hard choice. I just had to wait for Win7 to drop. I'm never going to buy a Mac again. Not that there is anything wrong witm them, but I can't justify the amount of money Steve Jobs is getting us to pay. So, I've decided to start building Hackintoshes. I mean it's the best of both worlds. The Mac OS b2b (back two back) just standard PC hardware. Which is what the Mac hardwares are now these days. Yep, they messed up by using the Intel processors ( cue evil laugh). Still learning from <a href="http://www.w3schools.com">w3schools.com</a>, and <a href="http://htmldog.com/">html dog</a> as my primary learning tool and reference. I have found another cool reference site and that's <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/">A List Apart</a> among other sites, but I'm finding these essential.</p> </div> <h3>Tools:</h3> <div id="horse"> <p>Since I'm on the PC again, bye bye Textmate and CSS Edit. Honestly, this was like a switf kick in the testicles. Absolutely loved these two programs. The good news is that I've found some sutible replacements. <a href="http://e-texteditor.com/index.html">E TextEditor</a> and <a href="http://www.topstyle4.com/">TopStyle4</a>. Sutible replacements and I haven't found anything better. Especially E-TextEditor. I mean, this is like the PC version of Textmate. You can even use Textmate's themes and bundles. Check it out!!! Ok, let me stop before it seems like I work for those guys lol ( No I'm not really laughing )!! Oh and for FTP transfers, I'm using FileZilla instead of Cyberduck. Had WinSCP but I couldn't select E Text, and TopStyle as my default editors. Keep getting "Access Denied" to my own C: drive. Annoyed. </p> </div> <h3>What I'm learning now and the "To Learn" list:</h3> <p class="shell">Still hashing it out. Started getting into XHTML for my content, and brushing up on CSS. Never really sat down and had a one on one with CSS. Doing that now. Next up in PHP and Java ( Just to say I learned them). I'm considering Flash and Actionscript though I keep hearing that's on the way out. Still, will get to grips with them anyway.</p> <p class="shell2">I'm looking forward to learn the following (UPDATED):</p> <ul> <li>MOAR of CSS</li> <li>PHP</li> <li>Flash</li> <li>Javascript</li> <li>C++ ( Yes, I actually want to write appications) </ul> <p>Also, technologies I plan to learn (Also UPDATED:</p> <ul> <li>GIMP</li> <li>Illustrator</li> <li>Action Script</li> </ul> <p>Basically I've decided that 2010 is the time where all the resources are here and available, and it's time to flex them and learn this stuff. Also, getting into the habit EARLY to write really clean strict code. If by some chance you've found this site... WATCH THIS SPACE!!! Going to get cranking and update it big time. Lot's of stuff to learn and the best way is for me to just put some action behind it.</p> <h3>Conclusion:</h3> <p>Watch this space!!! Going to start flexing what I've learned now here a bit regularly from now on.</p> </body> </html> I honestly can't work out what's wrong with it. Anyone have any ideas?
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So it's common place to design something in say, illustrator or photoshop, and just slice it there then? I thought everyone just did everything in css, but I can see how it's impossible to created images in css. That's just for positioning things. Ah!
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Humm, so if divs are used to group sections of html together, then how can I create multiple groups? (i.e. wanting to apply different styles to multiple sections of text). Should I use the ID selector? Or would I just use Classes and use the <div> tag to just divide the text?
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Thanks all for the replies. You think me calling a div... a div would matter? Since it's a custom selector? It seemed to work.
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Ello, I'm learning about divs and classes. Basically I've created two div id's and two classes, but only one of them are displaying. you can view it here: http://verdisquo.uuuq.com/ Am I doing something wrong? Here is the code. html: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html> <head xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="index.css" > <title>Adrian's playground</title> </head> <body> <h1>Learning the Ropes</h1> <hr /> <br /> <h2>Intro:</h2> <div id="div"> <p>Hello,</p> <p class="indent">My name is Adrian and I want to design webpages. I'm doing this for a hobby now, but I wouldn't mind doing this professionally (either freelance or full time).<br /><br />I'm using this site as a template to practice my web building skills. I started out by reading the tutorials from <a href="http://www.w3schools.com">w3schools.com</a>, but now I'm using <a href="http://htmldog.com/">html dog</a> as my primary learning tool and reference. I do aspire to build clean, dynamic looking web pages (the ones I really like to look at).</p> </div> <h3>Tools:</h3> <div id="horse"> <p>I'm currently using Textmate and CSSEdit (both highly recommended) for writing XHTML and CSS. Looking to add more soon. =]</p> </div> <h3>What I'm learning now and the "To Learn" list:</h3> <p class="shell">Currently I'm learning about CSS. Honestly, it's doing my head in at he moment, but I'm sure I'll get the gist of things after playing around with it. Just finished XHTML and I know for any information to sink in, I have to practice it (hence this page). I'm ready to put in the time to figure out these things.</p> <p class="shell2">I'm looking forward to learn the following:</p> <ul> <li>CSS</li> <li>PHP</li> <li>Flash</li> <li>Javascript</li> </ul> <p>Also, technologies I plan to learn:</p> <ul> <li>Photoshop</li> <li>Illustrator</li> <li>Action Script</li> </ul> <br /> <p>I know the basics of XHTML, but I know that I have to practice a lot for it (or anything for that matter) to become second nature.</p> <h3>Conclusion:</h3> <p>I'm really excited about the journey ahead, and amped about learning CSS (and more), but this, I know is only one small piece of the bigger picture. There is always more to learn and I want to improve both knowledge and skills in my Web Design and Graphic Designing efforts. Come to think about it, this place could also be my online diary of web design. Will give more thought about that later.</p> <h4>To be continued...</h4> </body> </html> And the CSS: /* CSS Document */ body{ background-color: seashell; } .indent { text-indent: 10px; } . padding { padding: 15px; } #div { background-color: red; padding: 1em } #horse { background-color: gray padding 3em } .shell { color:green font-weight: bold; } .shell2 { color: green
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Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!!
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Good info. Thanks a bunch. Either of you would know of a better website to learn CSS?. Like w3schools, but they don't really give an explanation on what each property does in detail like they do in their html/xhtml section.
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Great topic! Really insightful to hear how others work.
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Yeah, this helps a lot. Thank you. vQ.
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Hey all, I'm starting my journey into web design and currently learning CSS. I'm going through the the tutorials on w3schools and I'm a bit confused on the class selectors. I know if, I were to type this: p.right {text-align: right} ... then when I assign this class in xhtml to the paragraphs, they will all show up on the right side of my page. And if I want to apply the same style to all of the elements I would just omit the "p" and assign the class accordingly. Questions are: 1. Which class selector would be better? Just assigning a class to one elements or just to leave it so you can apply the same class across the board if you wanted to? 2. When creating a class selector, can you just make up any name for it or does it have to follow a scheme for it's function? So in the above example, could I just type .blahblahblah {text-align: right} and -as long as I note the class in xhtml- still have it work just the same? Thanks. vQ.
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Asking this because there seems to be a bit of elements/attributes that are depreciated. Do you think that someone new to html/css should bother learning deprecated elements and or attributes? Will there be any compatibility issues? vQ.
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Great thread!!! Read over everything. Thanks to Rob and everyone else who contributed. Bookmarked this thread for future study.
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Ok. Thanks for the input Thomas. Oh, and one more question, would it make more sense to include formatting in the html document itself, or just save all of that for css?
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Ok, so I'm learning the basics of html @ w3schools.com and I'm learning about the <img> tag. So more specifically, I had a question regarding this statement: Right, so I guess the 11 files are the html file plus the 10 images. But why would it take time for them to load? Would internet speeds have something to do with this? This seems like the logical answer. Would there be a difference in say.. instead of using the <img> tag, would things load up faster if all the images were done with CSS? Would you need less files to display images if using CSS? vQ.
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Hello all, Found this site through a listing of top forums on web design. I'm 26 and just getting to grips with everything. Started out with the plain on text editor learning HTML and I'm going to start using Smultron or CotEditor for the HTML work and CSSEdit for well, CSS. I have lots of questions so don't mind me if I'm asking all kinds of stuff. Looking forward to the days ahead. vQ.