Obviously, “Coding Up a Web Design Concept into HTML and CSS” was very helpful in building my website’s structure and design. I was able to design what I wanted my final product to look like, but I struggled with taking that plan and creating a tangible product. Using this article, which I considered the most helpful of the information we’ve been given, I was able to correct my coding mistakes and make my website more interesting and engaging. The most helpful feature of the article was its instructions and visual examples for each addition to a site, including how to design a header, footer and content.
It also made it clear that a user must perfect both HTML and CSS in order to design an appealing webpage. Often, we have to make changes to our HTML structure in order to make our CSS styling more interesting. If you write your HTML without a basic knowledge of CSS, or vice-versa, then your webpage will lack structure or design, and will lack appeal to the reader. As a result, it’s important to design a website that takes its two components and molds them together into a tangible page of content.
However, I’m not sure why we didn’t read this article before the project was assigned, as someone else has already said. It would’ve given our class some experience in reading coding and design, which would’ve served the same purpose as w3schools had for many of us. In other words, it would’ve provided us with a template on how to properly code an HTML and CSS stylesheet, and design an interesting, and visually appealing, webpage .