Posted by cassia on 12/07/06 00:11

Bergamot wrote:
> cassia wrote:
> >
> > This is the worst class I've ever taken here at Utah State
> > university. The professor is a 25 year old gal who works for a company
> > called Digital Slant
>
> That explains a lot. Their own web site is a mass of bloated, 1996-style
> code with a few CSS bits thrown in. It looks like crap in my browser,
> too. Not atypical for a bunch of graphic designers who try to do web
> design, too. They have no business teaching HTML, since they don't seem
> to understand it themselves. ;)
>
> > and really doesn't put in the time to teach the
> > course effectively. She teaches way to fast (shows up 10 min late
> > everyday!) and didn't include any supplimental info for the class.
>
> Complain to the school. Nothing will get better if nobody speaks up.
>
> > The assignment was to find a client (my mother) and design a web page
> > for them from straight HTML raw code.
>
> You can't design a web site if you don't understand the basics. Your
> instructor apparently skipped the fundamentals, so it's no wonder you
> are lost.
>
> Someone else pointed you to the W3C specs, but that can be hard to
> swallow for a newbie. HTMLDog has been a recommended tutorial in these
> parts before, but I've never read through it myself. Maybe it will be
> easier to comprehend than the W3C site.
> http://htmldog.com/
>
> > the site is due next wednesday
>
> Good luck, you'll probably need it.
>
You're not kidding!
Thanks for that site, you're right, those other sites were so foreign
to me!


> --
> Berg

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