So what’s it like?
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007What’s it like to be twenty? Feel any older? Feel more mature, more wise, more in-control? Honestly? It feels exactly the same so far. Mostly, it’s just making my parents feel old!
Okay, nerd relapse. I got this book from the library. Wait, wait, let me back up. I have this thing for the “Dummy” books. If I don’t know anything about a subject, I love to browse through them and get a gist of what’s going on. If it’s a book concerning something I know pretty well, I love to read through and tell them what they’re getting wrong or teaching stupidly (read: German, web design, or the like). So, wandering through the library the other day (well, you missed the part about the old ladies and the “tachyon” music, but that’s really a long story), I picked up this book called “Head First HTML” yadda yadda.
Ha, I thought, picking the book up. This oughta be good. Shawna, you’ll especially appreciate this. Every time I pick up a book like this, they teach you the old, outdated, clunky, stupid way, and then halfway through the book they try and fix their mistakes and attempt to teach you the right way.
This one was actually pretty good. By chapter three we had a website built, by chapter six we were validating on the W3C page using XHTML, and we NEVER ONCE used the <font> tag, the “bgcolor” attribute, or any image without an alt tag.
Q: My friend showed me a cool trick where he did all of his page layout right within a table. He didn’t even have to use CSS!
A: Go straight to CSS jail. Do not pass go; do not collect $200.
Shawna, I don’t know what you should be prouder of… me picking up this book and already knowing most of it… or the fact that I was cheering them on.
Okay, no more nerdiness today. I’m off to bed.
