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Design for Web Content – the weekly learning cycle and HTML pointers

The weekly learning cycle

  1. Teaching – attend lectures. Listen, take notes
  2. Study – read recommended texts, watch videos and tutorials
  3. Reflect – make notes based on studies. Write “what I learned” blog posts
  4. Practice – complete project tasks to practise what you have learned. Seek support if needed
  5. Feedback – make notes on how to improve

HTML points to bear in mind

  • <br> and <hr> – to use or not to use? They are used for presentational purposes. If so, then why bother using them if you can then just style in CSS (say by creating border-bottom lines?). Best not to use.
  • Don’t necessarily need to indent the <head> and <body>, but it’s a good idea for ease of viewing.
  • NEVER add anything to your code that you don’t understand.
  • Always make alt text as clear for screen readers as possible.
  • NO inline CSS or <head> <style> CSS!
  • By default an img should always have a height and a width. But are they considered presentational and therefore irrelevant? However, height and width has a specific function. The browser then knows how much space to reserve for the image. Otherwise, all the text jiggles about as the image loads, which is very annoying.

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