Mandatory Blog Post #6 - HTMLing

When I first began reading the textbook HTML, CSS and JavaScript by Julie C. Meloni, I couldn't imagine why I would ever use the languages on my blog. I still don't see a profound reason on this blog, but I definitely see a use for it when I eventually have to get my own website. This is going to be a shorter blog post, but I think that it will help us all understand that we can do some pretty cool things with these languages.

At first I thought that I would be confused and perplexed by HTML. I live with a few computer
scientists, so I have seen them program a lot of stuff. It all looked foreign to me, but my roommates assured me that it really was easy. The textbook does a really great job of teaching you these seemingly difficult computer languages. Just after a few chapters I feel like I will be able to do a lot more with computers than I ever would have thought possible. I can now identify some of the markup language in random websites and know what it is actually doing. HTML is pretty neat.

So, back to the task at hand; how will HTML, CSS, and JavaScript possibly help me with this blog? With my limited knowledge of these languages at the moment I won't be able to go into too much detail, but I can imagine the possibilities with what I already know.

HTML would allow me to place every word and line exactly where I wanted it on the page. I could make the blog any color, shape or font that I desire. Of course I would have to make sure that it works on every internet browser and mobile device. There is a lot to the language, but I can already tell that I will enjoy learning about it. Speaking of HTML, here is a silly example of it being put to good use. http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

I could see a use for a CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in the formatting of all of my blog posts. I would like to have a standard format for all of my posts where I could just fill in the blanks and not have to worry about white space or paragraphs being too long. Internal style sheets would still allow for variation among the posts to avoid monotony, but having a singular format would make my life a whole lot easier.

JavaScript would allow me to make silly little interactive images comics, or games for all you bloggers to click on with your mousy pointers. I think it would add a lot of depth to my blog and would allow me to show off my creative spirit.

Overall, learning these languages would be cool and all to make silly things on my blog, but I have to say that it is more important for me to actually know what I am using when I write on this blog or post on YouTube. I don't like using things without have some knowledge of how it's actually working.