When you define a style, it is made up of a couple of pieces of information; specifically the selector, the declaration block, and rules, which are a combination of a property and a value. The selector allows us to define which tag, or tags, will be affected by our style definition. There is a whole…
At the top of the web page you will often find information about the website such as the name, logo, and possibly the main navigation, date, and/or a site wide search function. Depending upon styling in coordination with the tags, there are different ways to build the site. However, you might expect to see something…
Heading Tags Heading tags start with an h, and have a number immediately following from 1 to 6. Typically, headers are used to show an importance with a lower number showing more importance, and defining what a large section of a page is about. Our heading tags start with an h and a number between…
After the head tag set, you’ll normally find the body tag set. In the body tag set, is all of the tags and information that is displayed to the website visitor. The body tag will be using the rest of the HTML tags that are available to us. So we won’t actually see the body…
The first section we have is the head. Now this isn’t the header that we see on a web page. Rather, this is like an old style head of a file, which contains metadata about our web page. Metadata is data about our data, or in this case, our website. There are tags which should…
All pages will use the same starting point and a basic structure. This is what we’re going to start building. Now it won’t really be effective for anything but the most basic pages, but it gives it the necessary start that all HTML 5 pages need. First, we need to define what we call the…
The term team is used loosely around business. The book prefers the term jelled team. The idea of a team coming together and acting as one. If team members are working together, and strongly tied to one another, then they will increase their performance and productivity. The whole is greater than the sum of the…
Obviously mastering the technical aspects of software development are important. However, hopefully as you’ve seen from the class already, there is more to it than just “coding”. The book outlines 7 traits that they feel are necessary to be a good software engineer. Individual Responsibility Works to deliver on promises they make to their peers,…
