Sunday, July 13, 2008

Conclusion and KQ Audit Trail

Who needs hands when cuteness will do!
What began as a web tour of (principally) authoring sites became more of a knowledge quest on improving my blog writing and html coding skills. It's been difficult particular html codes into pre-existing html format. For example, when downloading images to a post Blogger creates the html code automatically. I wanted to change some of the attributes but had to navigate (carefully) within the code itself. I learned a bit more this way. However, much as I tried, I wanted the title of the blog to be embedded to the left of the little guy wandering through the WWW. It looks o.k as it is, but I wanted to not leave so much gray area to the right of the picture. Still working on it.

I'm also learning more code for the text and formatting elements of Blogger; I liked doing this. So, while my 'tour', as such, didn't quite pan out what I intended to be, the alternate paths that I took nevertheless led me to new knowledge. I'm happy with that and will continue.
Working within an already existing (partial) HTML shell such as with Blogger's format has been challenging and a good learning experience. I'm beginning to be brave and try editing existing HTML codes, and it seems to be working out o.k. . . so far.

The Digital Trail


Authoring Sites


Filamentality
TrackStar
Surweb
Tramline Tourmaker


(Specifics on these four sites are in Process: Investigating Sites Utilizing Various Technologies.)

WebQuest and Its Spinoffs


This is where it gets a little trickly. (Links to yet more links within pages, across sites.)
WebQuest News is Bernie Dodge's homepage. (He does commercialize himself, and who can fault him.) Bernie is the creator of
WebQuest.org which is the homepage for basic information on WebQuest(s) and resources / references for developing your own Quest page.


Other Authoring Systems


zWebQuest
phpWebQuest
TeacherWeb

HTML


I've been using various html web sites and reference books. Still working on this and will be for a while. I'm also trying to learn CSS at the same time. We'll see how it goes. I've had little luck with anchoring within pages. Can't get the hang of it but working on it. It'll come.


w3schools is a good introduction reference page for html. Use it a lot.
HTML Code Tutorial is also a good quick reference site that I use.

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