Sunday, December 03, 2006

HTML 1

The class was about how to write basic code that can be seen in an internet browser. The code we wrote was inside of the notepad program that is commonly found on most computers in the accessories folder. The first idea the instructor said was important was nesting of code. This allows the user to write code in a simple format that is easy to read and go back to to make changes and add on.
The start of every page should include a DOCTYPE! in brackets at the top to let the browser know it is a document. From there it's helpful to let the browser know it is html also in the same bracket as the DOCTYPE!. An important part of creating pages is tags, which is pretty much everything that we did in the class. Important tags are the header tag and the body tag. Inside the body is where most of the other tags are put. Each tag starts out with a and ends with a . We learned about tags that break lines, end paragraphs, and add a horizontal line.
After this we learned to stylize the code. This is inputting code that will change the text, color, justification, etc. We also learned how to add lists, and add pictures in the code. We then talked about hyperlinking, and also how to hyperlink a picture.
This was all very useful, because before this class I had no idea what any of the tags meant in the code that I would look at in the websites we were making. Now it is nice to look at the code and understand what you need to do to simply add something to the webpage. There are a few things you need to know about adding tags, and after knowing them, you can easily modify webpages. I feel this will be helpful in the final project when the time comes to add a line of text or add a picture, because it seems like it will be much easier to just go to the code and add it in where I would like it to show up on my webpage.

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Apparantly I pissed off Satan enough to the point where he feels it's necessary to prank call me

So It's almost 1 am, on Saturday December 2nd right now. On December 1st at 12:41 am I got an incoming call from 1-666-666-6666. I didn't pick up, but got a message immediately following the call, so I checked my voicemail. It was a recording that said something along the lines of "Hello, Andrew Dennis, you are now an official member of the church of Satan". I thought that was kind of weird, but maybe just some sort of prank call, or maybe one of my roommates signed me up for something weird (as they already had signed me up for the IBS pen pal list [which I receive e-mails from people with IBS looking for guidance, and I feel awkward because I don't have IBS but can't get my name off the list], and Psoriasis Connections). So since they do that, I didn't really take the call that seriously. But then all hell broke loose.
(That last sentence was a reference to the many end of the chapter cliffhangers R.L. Stine leaves his readers with)
The next morning I woke up to get ready for my English class that I have with my roommates Friske and Ryan. My phone was next to my bed charging and it was on silent. At 11:30 am, my phone received a call from the number 1-414-634-4622. I didn't see that call until later in the day. I thought I recognized the number, but when I called back I got an operator saying it wasn't a real number. My roommate Ryan's phone number is 1-414-534-4622. So there was a fake number that called me that was one digit different from Ryan's. That kinda freaked me out a little bit. At about 2 pm then, Ryan was at his girlfriends, and got a call from my phone that I didn't make. I wasn't by my phone, but it decided to call Ryan with a message asking if he wanted his name removed from a list. The same thing happened to Friske from my phone a couple of hours later. I made neither of these calls. Somehow, my phone called my two roommates, to leave a message from the Satan club thing. As I am writing this, it is now 1:04 am, and I just got another call from the 666 number asking me if I want my name off of the list to press 3, and I did, and will now wait to see what happens. But anyway, I just though it was weird that I got a fake call from a number that was nearly identical to Ryan's, and my phone called Friske and Ryan, but no one else, only the 2 people I live with. And they weren't the most recent calls I had or anything like that, Satan singled them out somehow to get them to join his club. I just think Satan should do something better with his time than prank call me late at night with his automated messaging system.