Task three of this course was quite interesting. I have learnt some basic html coding before, but never got excessively far after giving up in frustration. This time it was nice having some basic grounding. I didn't get frustrated straight away and actually had fun playing with the quirks of the coding. When I made mistakes I was happy to find I could find them quite quickly. The problems did start to arise however when I went to load the webpage to the presentations section of Curtins webct. First I had to figure out how to link the images correctly - which unfortunately took a while. Once I got them done, I had a bit of a tough time trying to get it to link to the public section so everyone could see it. I wasted a lot of time on this unfortunately :( But all's well that ends well. As you can see from the picture above, I got it finished and uploaded :)It felt kind of good to work it all out. The site isn't flashy at all but I got it down :D and next time someone asks me to type html hopefully I'll be able to do a little bit more.
To compare this to blogging: let's face it blogging is a lot more intuitive and user friendly, but I get the sneaky suspicion that coding allows you to have more control over what you're doing. Perhaps you could compare it to driving a manual car to driving an automatic; more difficult to learn, but more fun to drive. At the end of the day there are uses for both of these tools, coding and WYSIWYG, so I guess it helps to know how to use both.
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