This site was very informational to me a Iknew nothing about HTML before reading it. HTMl stands for hyper text markup language. A HTML file is then a text file containing small mark up tags. These mark up tags tell the web browser how to display the page. HTML tags come in pairs and are not case sensitive. The aritcle showed me a lot of htl tags such as how to make text bold or italic and how designate certain things as headings. For example
is how one would make a paragraph in HTML.
HTML cheat sheat (web monkey)
This website provided mainly the same over view as the first site did. It went into a lot of detail on how to do different body attribute such as set the backgriund and text color. For example would create bold text and would create italic text.
W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial
I had not heard of CSS before reading this article so this was all new to me. Styles define how to display HTML elements. Styles are normally stored in style sheets. Styles solve a problem. "As the two major browsers - Netscape and Internet Explorer - continued to add new HTML tags and attributes (like the tag and the color attribute) to the original HTML specification, it became more and more difficult to create Web sites where the content of HTML documents was clearly separated from the document's presentation layout.
To solve this problem, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - the non profit, standard setting consortium, responsible for standardizing HTML - created STYLES in addition to HTML 4.0" (W3 Schools CSS Tutorial). CSS sybtax is made of of 3 parts: selector, property, and vlaue. Selector is normally the HTML element/tag that one wishes to describe. The prpoerty is the attribute you wish to change and each property can take a value. The propet and value are seperatd by a colon and surrounded by curly brackets. You can group selectors. With the class selector you can define different styles for the same type of HTML element. You can also define styles for HTML elements with the id selector.
Beyond HTML
This was a rather long article about the Georgia State University Library. The purppse of the article was to" report on the content management system desing to manage the 30 web-based research guides developed by the subject liasion libraries at the Georgia State University Library" (Goans, Leach, Vogel 29). The article starts out by saying how things used to be. "In 2000 the GSU Library had a FrontPage based web site with minimal login security, site architecture, planning, and administrative and editorial processes in place. A single librarian served in the role of network coordinator, server, administrator, and web site manager" (Goans, Leach, Vogel). This library does not seem to have a very organzied system seeing as each librarians has a different number of guides some having a few some having a lot and they are all in different styles. In 2000 the libraries first web development librarian was hired to improve the library system. "Implementing web site secuirty for Frontpage authors and exploring web site infastrucutre develpoment were amont the first step he undeetook to improve the libraries web presence. He also built MySQL applications to manage the list of databases and electronic journals as well as several major photograph collections for the special collections department" (Goans, Lech, and Vogel 30). The article then goes no to describe content management system and goes on to describe in detail the GSU Library CMS technology. Later at GSU they did a survey of the CSM. The variety of responses told them that csm was still an emerging technology that not everyone used.
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