What’s Next?

Liam Justiniano

Christina Truong walked me through HTML in probably the best way ever. There were never moments where I had to go out to another tab to look up a term she was talking about or ever needed any other supplementary tutorials. With her Linkedin Lesson she very thoroughly and clearly explained HTML. her approach felt very manageable and I did not find myself overwhelmed by her explanations. Areas where there might have been some confusion were supplemented with practices that we were able to do on our own and afterwards she would even walk through the same example. It was very easy to spot where I had messed up and what I needed to fix and I was able to go back and try it again and watch her explanations again until I got it down. 

Once again it is so interesting to see behind the curtains for the online world, but now actually being able to manipulate and understand is a different level. Engaging with HTML makes me realize how much I’ve used HTML without really understanding what I was doing. 

Experimenting with the style and layout of HTML has actually been fun, because I am not worried about “what will this allow me to do?”, but rather “what’s next? what else can I do?” and that is very exciting! I keep finding new tools and new ways to play around with HTML and different tags. There’s always something new that I can go ahead adn try and work with. I use W3Schools for help. W3Schools is THE web developer site to learn about HTML and find new things to play around with. They have a bunch of tools and resources. My favorite recently is using the HTML symbols to insert certain emojis or arrows which would make a website more engaging and less of a wall of text without tackling the layout of inserting pictures into HTML which is something that I am still practicing. 

I found the lesson about accessibility very interesting. I don’t think I ever thought about the fact that there might be organizations creating rules and standards for HTML The World Wide Web Consortium is the group that runs the standards for HTML. Using their HTML validators helps me find small little issues with my code and from there I’m able to actually learn what I did wrong rather than just maybe a red squiggle. 

These resources are great for me because before I knew next to nothing about computers and the steps that happen behind the scenes. The LinkedIn lessons, w3schools and the world wide web consortium are all tools that broke down HTML into manageable bites. Overall the process was a whole lot less intimidating and it actually made the process of learning fun and I want to continue to spend time playing with it and learn and find out “what’s next”?