Lab 2 Reflection Journal

Thawsif Mursalin

Digital Design

Class of 2018

Mr. Ramirez

Lab 2 Reflection Journal:

Lab 2 was essentially the introduction to HTML coding. All we had to do is remember how to start an HTML code. Prerequisites we were supposed to know is that HTML stands for Hypertext Mark-up Language. From this I can deduce that this is a type of code because, ergo, I am in Digital Design and the name itself has language in it! I can also say that this language is used for designing a web site, so we are going to be dealing with a lot of browsers and URL, Uniform Resource Locators. There are also HTML tags that are used to create these websites. We might be using Dream Weaver additionally because that's the main function of it, to create websites. The new material we learned was placing images. We already know how to put different heading types and paragraphs. The next segment was using a command known as <img src=”…..”> . The next step was to give the image a post-secondary name, in which we label its section/ role in the HTML coding with an alternative name, alt=”……” .Then giving that image dimensionality by addressing both the height and the width of the image, with commands width=”…..” and height=”……” all in the same line of coding. With this information in mind we were able to place an image. The second thing we learned was using the center format.

By using the center format we can place objects in the middle of a webpage. The command to set up a center format is <center>. Anything on the same line or below this text, <center>, will be placed in the middle of the webpage. Specifically the images were in the center. One last thing we did was to create smart goals. This was only specific towards lab 2 however. My Smart goals happened to be, “Goal 1: Maintaining a 90 Grade Point Average or higher, Goal 2: Setting a good example to the sophomores and people in my class, Goal 3: Becoming proficiently adept with coding, and lastly, Bonus Goal: NOT FREEZING TO DEATH!” These goals were alright but could be developed forward more. From there we used an FTP to upload our work. FTP stands for file transfer protocol. According to Wiki sources, "The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files between a client and server on a computer network. FTP is built on client-server model architecture and uses separate control and data connections between the client and the server." In our case we used FileZilla to upload out content to the web! I choose those smart goals because I want to be a model student, however this isn’t exactly working out for me as well as I had hoped.