Today's class went at an extremely fast pace, since Mr. Arkin would be away tomorrow and on Friday. I was doing my best to follow along, but I think I might have missed a few things he said that were important.
He taught us some basic knowledge about HTML and CSS. Although I learned quite a bit, there were some aspects of the lesson that I was familiar with. For example, the fact that, although a start tag has no slash in it, the end tag did.
I took lots of notes (and hopefully I didn't miss anything). I'm exaggerating, but I was in quite a frenzy, and it wouldn't have been surprising if there was paper flying everywhere. Anyways, despite the fact that I almost went crazy trying to cram all this knowledge into my head, I really enjoyed today's class.
Like I said, I learned a lot. The thing that stuck in my head the most was that HTML was for the content of the page and CSS was for the format. I had worked with HTML before, but I had no idea what CSS was, so that really interested me.
Mr. Arkin also covered FTP. This was the part that confused me the most. (I think this is because he went over everything else so quickly, and my head was already spinning. At one point, I blanked out...I regret that, since I'm pretty sure what he said was very important.) I understand that we're going to have to create our own websites, but I didn't really understand anything about the Mirrors. So, I have a couple of questions for anyone out there who might be able to answer them:
- What exactly is a "mirror"? I know that you do all your editing with your mirrored file (is that what it's called?), but I'm not sure what it really is.
- Say you have a file up on your website, but you want to edit it. After you edit the file's mirror, do you just upload the whole file onto the website again, or do you have to change the parts you edited directly on the Production Copy?
On another note, I (regrettably) forgot my password to my Student Account, so I'm desperately hoping Mr. Arkin will reset them tonight!
Oh, and we got lollipops in class today! I'm so happy!
Ah, well, that's all I have to say for now! I'm looking forward to tomorrow!
This is an awesome blog post, Pearl!
ReplyDeleteI do have to agree that the class was challenging. I might be able to answer your questions.
1. What exactly is a "mirror"? I know that you do all your editing with your mirrored file (is that what it's called?), but I'm not sure what it really is.
When you create the HTML/CSS code and apply it to a "mirror" to test it out. You would also make your changes there and see how it turns out before you actually make changes on your actual site (which if I am correct the production site)This is why it's called a mirror, because it is an exact copy of the real thing.
2. Say you have a file up on your website, but you want to edit it. After you edit the file's mirror, do you just upload the whole file onto the website again, or do you have to change the parts you edited directly on the Production Copy?
I would say upload the whole file onto the website depending on what you changed. This is because you may have made adjustments to what you wanted to change and forget to add them to your list of changes. That's the logical theory, but you may want to ask Mr. Arkin on this one.
Oh, and you can also post these questions on wikispace if you still have questions!! :-)