Jumping back into HTML after a month of not using it has been humbling to say the least. While I remember most of the tags that I used in my Introduction to Web Design class, I’m realizing how much I’ve already forgotten in such a short amount of time. On top of that, I’m also starting to realize how much I don’t know about coding in general.
It is currently Week 2 of my Intermediate Web Design class and I’ve already marked up a Future Resume in HTML as well as learned several new tags along the way. This introductory project has helped me a lot with dusting off the coding cobwebs in my head and remembering how <h1>-<h6> tags work, but I’m surprised with how long it took me to remember how to get started.
Though the project itself shouldn’t have taken longer than 1 hour to complete, I found myself staring at the screen longer than I’d expected. Thankfully, Professor Mead provided a tutorial video to help get started and I was able to get a general idea for how I wanted to structure my page from there. In the end, I was able to find a pump out a rough draft of my future resume!
We were also tasked with visiting a website called MDN Web Docs and taking a more in depth look at the different HTML tags. Then, we were asked to share something new that we found interesting about HTML in general, whether it was a specific tag or something about it in general. Upon visiting the site, I was surprised with how many tags and attributes there are available to use in HTML alone. I didn’t realize how much I still have to learn, and it made me feel a little intimidated to be honest.
As I went through the site and looked through the different tags, I found myself the most interested in the article called <video>: The Video Embed Element. I hadn’t thought of adding a video on a website and there are so many attributes available for this tag alone, I found myself going down the rabbit hole trying to find more information related to it.
I also learned through MDN’s website that there are certain attributes in HTML called boolean attributes, which are pretty much just attributes that represent true/false values. For example, in the case of the <video> tag, if you would like your video content to automatically play whenever a user visits your site, you could give it the attribute autoplay=”true” to do so.
All this to say, I’m really looking forward to learning more about coding in this class. Though it’s only the second week, I can already see that I have my work cut out for me and I’m ready to bring it on!