HTML and Style Sheet Readings

HTML Tutorial/Cheatsheet
I have to admit that I have never created a web page from scratch. I thought this tutorial was thorough, yet not overwhelming and it did not take itself too seriously. (Welcome to the end of the Internet, anyone?) After completing the different chapters, I certainly have a new respect for web designers. I did as they suggested and clicked View and Source and was amazed to see how much code was necessary to create the tutorial! I can just see myself flipping back and forth from my page editor to the cheat sheet to see what individual bits of code that I needed to use? "Now, how do I create blue text again?" I would probably only be able to get my name and address down with maybe a picture before giving up at the tediousness of the process. Perhaps it only appears tedious when you are not used to it? I am spoiled by the fact that Blogger creates the workings of my blog for me and I can rely on SiteMason to do the behind-the-scenes work for my electronic subject guides. The cheat sheet made for a nice concise reference displayed all on one page. Once you were more familiar with the terms and code discussed in the tutorials, it would be easy to refer back only to this sheet.

Style Sheets
I thought this tutorial was interesting but a bit over my head. I do believe that it will make more sense once I become more familiar with basic html. It should make it a bit simpler, especially the fact that you can make apply changes to all of your web pages by only editing one sheet.

Georgia State Paper
Our reference team is currently in the process of creating all new subject guides, so this article was very timely. It was great to read about their experience. This is the first time I have ever had to create a subject guide, so everything is new to me. I suppose we are using a commercial product to design ours. It is rather limited in the way you can design the pages, but it is very good at making it easy for all of your pages to look the same. The templates are web-based, so we can each log in at our leisure to make changes to our pages. The program makes it as simple as editing a Word document. I believe that we do have some sort of "gatekeeper" in place that we have to notify when we are finished editing and our pages are ready to go live.