The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl several times! but it was really fun. i didnt put in pictures of all the Thanksgiving mayhem, so i will include a few extra stories of whats not pictured. on Thanksgiving day i started (and finished) a Dan Brown novel called Digital Fortress. Since the Xbox was broken, i reached a boredom high and decided to try a book. once i start a book, i cant stop until i finish...lol. its a really good book, and i recommend it to any Dan Brown fans or suspense novels. Also, i enjoyed getting to pitch some with my bro-in-law, which, as you can tell from several previous posts, baseball is my passion! lastly, i wanted to include a little update on what i've been working on the past several days. ive been working on learning HTML and JavaScript. all that means is that i can write webpages. you may have noticed the music that is now on my site, which is something i included by editing the site template HTML. (p.s. if the music is annoying, just say so...lol). anyway, back to my story :) JavaScript is the most technically difficult programming language i've learned so far. I think for my next post i will include a basic guide to HTML programming, especially since kristen asked about learning how to design websites and such. for reference, HTML is easier and more forigiving that Java, but HTML cant do quite as many neat things as Java can. most professional websites rely more heavily on javascript, but if you try to learn it, just remember that it just takes time and practice to become good at it. by the way, a good site to learn some basics about HTML and JavaScript can be found here. A couple of the tutorials on this are slightly outdated, but i found some new fixes and new coding just by playing around with the code. feel free to email me with any questions. Happy Holidays everyone!
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It was nice having the xbox somewhat out of commission! It was fun to all be together and spend time together. You are a great uncle and Elise and Ian do love the attention.
And about the javascript and all - you really seem to have a knack for that kind of thing!
JavaScript is really ugly, but it does a lot of cool stuff, like the menu on this page. So, did you learn Java?
Are you learning CSS with HTML? They really go hand in hand now.
Sorry about the multiple posting. I checked out htmlgoodies.com and it teaches no-nos. It really isn't up to date. You are not supposed to use capital letters in the tags and everything must have a closing tag. Like you can't make a horizontal rule like this:
<HR>
It should be like this:
<hr />
I recommend w3schools.com and learn XHTML.
Adam, why the moderator?
Yeah, moderator is now turned off...that was getting annoying. yeah, i agree, the html portion especially of html goodies.com is pretty outdated, but it helped me learn some basics. i'd really be interested in learning some XHTML. oh yeah, i havent learned actual java, but i've really enjoyed learning javascript, esepcially since everything ive learned has been in the space of about a week. anyway thanks for the site, it looks pretty promising!
i need a tutorial before i read these posts! you guys are out of my league!
It's important to know that Java and JavaScript are totally different and unrelated. Java is a pure programming language used to make all sorts of stuff. Netscape was developing a scripting language for the web (scripting means it takes elements of websites and manipulates them) and they decided to call it JavaScript just to ride the coattails of the popular Java name.
It's cool you are learning the web stuff. XHTML is basically the latest HTML language with CSS incorporated in it. I have a great book called "HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide" and it rocks. You can get it from Amazon for ten bucks.
About the moderator: I made my blog unlisted and I don't have any troubles with spam. Is this one listed, Adam? My other blog that I want anyone to see (Large Plates) is public, so I use the word verification feature.
Oops, I linked to this blog instead of w3schools! Here is the real link. Isn't it fun putting html in blogs! I like to mess with the code to line up my images really nice, like on this post.
I also messed up the link to my old family site with a cool javascript menu. It is pecks.sitesled.com.
i know what you mean, its pretty cool knowing a little about html and javascript, enough to do some neat things with a blog!