My goals for this class was to extend knowledge about web tech and basic web programming such as php, xml, and I was hoping to get into python programming for the web.
I knew a good amount of HTML and CSS before coming into this class but this was a good refresher on this information. Link to my home page demonstrating html and css. Sample html from zen garden
These were interesting presentations that provided good insight into what javascript and its alike are capable of. I learned a lot of jQuery functions and applications like lightbox, colorpicker, and tabs using jQuery. jQuery Fade header example
I am currently taking comm440: php and mysql and this was a great addition to the course. I learned how to create secure php using ssl and captchas.
XML, XLST, and DTDs were very interesting and I learned how they can be used to create nice looking output. I greatly enjoyed this lesson and plan on incorporating XML into a project possibly through python. Examples of XML we did in class.
This was a nice intro into what we could see in the near future. I learned a lot about the new tags being implemented and how they will be used in HTML5. I also learned a lot more about CSS3 and the new things it is bringing like rounded corners, transparency, and shadowing effects. Examples of HTML5 and CSS3