Week 7 Post

Christina Truong’s videos on LinkedIn Learning teach us lessons on how to create an .html file. For someone who is unaware of what markup is, this would probably be extremely confusing. Truong makes it easy to understand for those who do know and want to learn more about HTML. Last week’s videos and this week’s videos touched up on different subjects.

Chapters 4,5,6, and 8 discussed several topics on HTML. These chapters talked about navigation links, images, media and audio files, and accessibility websites. All of these are useful in making how to make your .html file. Navigation links are used for different things, like “click here” or downloads. Images include picture elements, which are used to provide multiple image sources for different screen sizes, resolutions, and page designs, while source elements work with the picture element to specify media conditions and provide a list of image files. MP4, WebM, and OGG are different video formats that can be used with the video element. There are different syntax to embed these into the .html file. An accessibility website is a website that is usable to as many people as possible. W3C helps make websites accessible by focusing on four major areas: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.

It looks like a lot to take it, right? If you are like me and do not have a lot of practice with coding, learning this can be a bit difficult, especially without practice. I know that it was hard for me to take all of this in when I had no idea what Truong, the host and narrator, was talking about. It helped me to look at Visual Studio Code, the app that I used for my project, as well as to practice. After the how-to project, I also got a better visual idea of her explanations. It is still new to me though, and thankfully Visual Studio Code helps finish a lot of the inputs entered (this is not an advertisement for VS Code). Practice makes perfect though, and she explains it very well.

I thought it was interesting that she brought up accessibility because this is something I never really considered until she talked about it. I also think it is great there are websites like W3C that help guide people on making websites accessible. I have checked the website, and they have strong values for sharing the web with everyone. There should definitely be more websites like W3C and it needs to get the recognition it deserves.