DIY Learning: XHTML, CSS so far (day 2)

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DIY Learning: XHTML, CSS so far (day 2)

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m learning XHTML and CSS with the help of a lovely, fat, easy to read book.

For the heck of it, I’m going to throw screenshots of the websites I’m creating as I learn. It will serve as an archive of the steps along the way. (The book’s approach is to have you build an example website already chosen by the author, but I figured I’d instead design a website for the “Community Service 2.0 / Year of Global Cooling / Concerts for Cooling” project I’m planning.)

So here’s what the book has helped me do by the middle of Chapter 3 (page 81), using simple XHTML and beginning to plunge into CSS. If you click on the photos, you’ll see larger versions –

The Home Page 1

The Home Page 2 and 3 (bottom half):

The Contact Us page:

The rest of Chapter 3 promises to add background color, more fine-grained styling options, and such. Stay tuned, if you want to see how quickly you can also learn this stuff. I’m finding it fun and, in a weird way, peaceful - kind of like how I imagine people feel when knitting or something.

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