Showing posts with label Notepad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Notepad. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

HTML and my poor confused brain

This week was an introduction to HTML, and I've found it to be quite difficult so far. I think my computer has been the problem, it just refused to recognise the link that I attached to the page.



Here's a screenshot of my (Mac) TextEdit attempt:













And this is my (Windows) Notepad version:










Exactly the same text, exactly the same link, exactly the same! However, when I tried to open the link from TextEdit, my computer would tell me that the URL could not be found. Multiple attempts later, there was no change. So I copied and pasted a link that Huan gave me, and that worked, but there was no reason for it to. I still wanted to be able to do it myself, so I used myDesktop, opened a Windows application, and went through the process again, with the right result this time. There has to be something wrong with TextEdit, because I didn't do anything differently, just used a different application. So from now on I'll be using Windows for any HTMLing that I do in class.

Other than this frustration, I think I'll be okay at HTML. It seems to be reasonably straightforward, and has a lot of rules, so as long as I follow them I should be okay. I can always give myself a break and edit a Trove page when I get too annoyed with it.