A student asked the following question… “I understand what we’re doing, but I’m worried about memorizing all of the coding. It might help if I understood the reasons behind all of it. For example, why do font changes need semicolons on them and not just a closing quotation mark like other things?” Great question and […]
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A student asked the design question, “Why is hypertext blue?” I was able to speculate why as a designer I might have chosen the color blue over another; like red. Red indicates alarm where blue is less intimidating yet still provides a strong contrast with surrounding black text and a white background. However, I could
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I received the following question from one of my online students… ” I tried opening files the book told me to, but they didn’t open in code, they just opened in regular text. Is that normal? Or am I doing something wrong?” HTML code is created with plain text and therefore needs an editor that can
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