I took some pretty serious notes during the 11/8 class for one of our classmates who was out that day. Messing around with Google Docs finally gave me an idea on how to link them here.
Funny. Looking back at them now, they probably don’t make sense to anyone but me. Further, I don’t know how anyone can learn HTML or CSS without trial and error. I just had to break and fix pages when I was learning it before I finally understood how it worked.
Since so much of what I learned in the beginning MMC class several years ago was stuff I sorted out online, I liked hearing Mindy’s take on the roles of CSS and HTML and the greater purposes they serve within a web site. I admit, I’ve misused style with the HTML in my time, rather than relying as I should have on the style sheets. But I’m getting better.
Most of the chotsky stuff we added to our blogs I already knew about. Those that I didn’t, I didn’t find necessary in my life. I’ve been thinking about how these tools are very much about personal preference. Therefore, as far as I’m concerned, I only want to put what I use to collect feeds and what-not on my site. It seems like a pain in the butt to have to put ALL of them on your blog. But when you think about hosting a blog that appeals to a lot of people, there’s the reason to pop all those services out there on your blog in terms of greater blog exposure and in terms of having buttons that mesh with the services potential readers use. I’m still not a fan. But I see their value.
