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Attribute syntax in HTML and CSS
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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Why is hypertext blue?
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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About WordPad vs NotePad
A student writes the following question… “When I write my code in Wordpad and save as an htm text document, it looks like one. But after I open it in the browser to see how it looks, the icon in the folder no longer says .htm and it appears to be a Firefox document. Is…
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