Jen Simmons Guide
Simmons LinkedIn learning guide on HTML only got more complex with the additions of new elements. Some of which that seem not that useful right now. Like creating forms or having images resize for different devices. I am not trying to downplay the significance of those elements, but I am not building website right now. Although I still remain indifferent to most of the html elements Simmons talked about, there were just too many thrown at me at once, I see how important they really are. I struggled with the size of my images in the Verification Quest project. The title background would significantly change based on the device’s screen, or if it was fully opened or not. If I payed more attention to that aspect of html, I could have been more prepared for that problem.
There were some elements that did catch my eye. Like section 8, which addresses one of my main unknowns about HTML: the structuring of content. Reciting what Simmons says won’t do any good, as I could never explain it nearly as concise. The point is that I wish the guide started with that segment first. Another interesting segment was section 6. Specifically, the implementation of controls to a video.
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I added this photo through this sites image feature. I changed the size to fit this paragraph better. I even added a link to the photographer’s profile on Flickr. This simple user interface is what I am accustomed to. HTML, on the other hand, adds a lot of steps that I could easily mess up. I would’ve had to create the <img> element with different attributes: source, alt, width, and height. Even then, there are things I would need to learn. Like how to add a caption, or how to wrap the photo around the text like this.
Despite how difficult it has been to learn HTML, I would say that it makes me appreciate the web more. Like Simmons points out in her guide, a website is composed of multiple “static files [that] often pull together the last millisecond.” It makes me think of this website. The user interface I mentioned earlier is written in HTML too. All the tool bars that that pop up as I interact with its different elements make me more astonished at how complex it all is. There are options allowing anyone to do anything with it. I mean, just click on the block inserter and scroll through all the options available to you.
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I really liked how you incorporated an image and used that to highlight how you view HTML. Putting those two examples next to each other really shows how easy people have made it to use the web compared to the very basic code that is running behind it all. It makes me appreciate the web a lot more as well. You talked about incorporating video controls and that reminded me about how I felt towards that. You viewed it as simple, but to me I found that aspect even more confusing. That might be because my brain was frying by that point. It is cool how we all find different aspects of it to be simple. It would have been pretty neat if you wrote your post in HTML. I am curious to see if it would display any differently, or if you were going to post the entire code and tags. That would have been brutal to read.