html task:

Log entry: Once you have completed the lessons, you should have a page with all the basic elements needed in a web page - save it as 'index.html', open it in your browser and take a screenshot and post it in your blog.

Record any difficulties you encountered with these exercises. Record your thoughts about html - do you feel a sense of achievement? What are the differences between html and blogging? what do you like best?

What do i feel about html? Well i feel a great sense of achievement of course. Having created a web page with my own handy work, one can't help feel a bit chuffed. I did find the original tutorial a bit cumbersome and ended up using the W3Schools Online Web Tutorials which i found much more helpful. But it still took me quite a long time to get comfortable using a text editor to write my html. it got to the point where i felt i was spending too much time on this task and just had to stop. Hence my site is rather rudimentary. The W3 site is great and when i do have time i will go back and try and master it more fully.

The differences between html and blogging? Funny question that. The way i understand things, html is simply the language that underpins websites and blogs. Its just that blogs are created with WYSIWYG editors, so that writers don't have to worry about having to learn html themselves. This is no doubt part of the reason why blogs are so popular. But learning how to write html gives you and edge. It gives you control of how you want things to look, because you can edit and tweak the html to create a design that you want.

The url of my uploaded web page is http://users.ncable.net.au/~garryreid/