Listen – Too often we listen to respond. We need to listen to learn from the people we’re talking to. Prepare – Do research to understand your client before you talk to them. This will make your communication more effective. Learn jargon, terms, etc. Use a facilitator – especially if there is a lot of…
“Divide and Conquer” – Break large problems down into smaller problems so that you can work toward solving a smaller, easier to manage problem. This is also called a separation of concerns. Understand the use of abstraction – Simplify complex information into something that can be conveyed in a single sentence. Strive for consistency –…
A declaration block is where we define the styles that will be applied. The block is contained within braces ({ and }). You must use the braces to surround your rules. Rules Rules in CSS are made up of two parts. The property, which is the attribute which will be changed, and its value. Depending…
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…
