Let the text editor decide

The next stage in the process was letting a text editor pick you but I had already done some work on this and had tried a few already. I started using notepad on Windows and had a go at Coffee Cup’s free editor but but didn’t really get on well with them. When I switched from my windows machine to a Debian laptop I discovered Gedit which was way better than the others I’d tried. I wanted to keep things basic and used notepad but it didn’t lend itself well to reading and laying out the code and Coffee Cup seemed to complicated for me to get started with. Gedit fitted in well by auto-tabbing the code and highlighting tags making it easier to read and work with.

If you’re using Linux or Windows for that matter I would recommend having a go at it to see if it works for you.

Coding by hand

I new I would be doing this in stages but I hadn’t realised just how long it would take me between getting back to it. today I managed to move onto the Coding by Hand exercise. Here we were writing out a really simple html document to get the hang of the basic structure and, to get used to the syntax. It took me seven attempts to get it down error free from memory, and I had to look up what the charset attribute was, but I got there in the end.

Now I’ve got the basic document structure memorised it should be easy to recall it for future exercises; I’ll type this out on notepad and save it which should make it faster for making files in the future. Here’s a picture of my final effort to get the code down correctly, the alignment isn’t great (neither is my handwriting for that matter) so I’d use graph paper in future to help with that if I was going to hand write any more code.

What’s it all for?

I’m basically trying to learn more about the fundamentals of webdesign, html, css and website hosting. This is a hobby interest for me as I get time to put things together; I’ve been through some of the excellent lessons on Codecademy and some of the w3schools to get myself up to some sort of basic knowledge level and now I’m trying the P2PU to see what else I can learn.

Warock and Ajax are go!

This wordpress site is go!. I’ve set this up as part of the P2PU webmaking 101 course to see how I get on.