Site Research

This week I've been looking around some sites to grab some ideas on layout design that I could possibly use for my site.

http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/information/Diseases.htm

This site has nice colouring and blends in well with the rest of the information that is published as well as having a logo at the top!

http://www.fishkeeping.co.uk/

I like how this site "groups" information together so it is easy to read and I'm also fond of the left sidebar navigation area, I will definitely be using that!

Obtaining New Skills

I have now developed the skills to create external style sheets. These will be used in my website and will make a drastic change to the XHTML code by making the site come alive! A lot of properties has been introduced to me for CSS that can be useful for the site, such as padding; the uses of background colours and borders!

CSS

This week I have been introduced to CSS. This stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is used for formatting a webpage. CSS files can be both internal (within the XHTML document) or as an external file (.css). I'm just getting to grips with the code, but there are a lot of functions it can do!

Web Development Chapters

I have now been progressing through the Web Development and Design Foundations book and have been completing the hands on practices and case studies. I have been learning how to use the basics of XHTML and how to layout a webpage.