Tuesday, May 5, 2009

INVALID!!

I am reveling today in my sudden FREEDOM of being DONE with my web design class. I had to turn in my finished website last night by 11:45 pm. I turned it in at 11:07. It was INVALID. It had 16 errors and a few warnings. I was supposed to correct any validation errors and get it to pass the HTML and CSS validator before turning it in, but I had had it. I was too bleary-eyed to try to sort out my errors and fix them. I just turned it in AS IS. So I'll be losing some points for that.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I used a lot of CSS on my website that I just learned on the fly. But that meant a lot of jacked up code that was not compliant with XHTML standards. So be it. I willfully ignored my instructor's mantra: "Just because it looks okay on the page doesn't mean it's right."

I won't be signing up for the Intermediate Web Design class. Not in the near future, anyway. If I'm going to be hunched over my computer, I'd rather be blogging.




5 comments:

  1. congrats on finishing your web design class! i have no idea what css and hxmtl...?....means, but i am sure you designed a cool site. now..the question is....will this website be available for viewing by anyone and everyone? would love to see what you have created.

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  2. The website is temporarily viewable on the internet --as long as MU continues to host it on their server. But I just checked it on Roger's computer, and found that indeed, my cavalier attitude towards code is coming back to haunt me. It doesn't appear the way it's supposed to --elements crashing into each other. We were warned about this --that you have to write the code to allow for different browsers. So I have a feeling that if you tried to view it, you'd have a train wreck on your computer screen.

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  3. I'm glad you're done with it. Just remember your awesome Star Trek webpage--you need to figure out how to keep it--I LOVE it!

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  4. Oh, don't give up on web design. What you did was the equivalent of starting nursing school with a class on inserting catheters and giving enemas. Sounds like they kind of threw you to the css lions and said "good luck, hope you make it out alive."

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  5. "What you did was the equivalent of starting nursing school with a class on inserting catheters and giving enemas.":

    Fantastic analogy! I'm dying laughing over here.

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