New features for my class website.

I have a new project that I need to do for my Advanced Web Development class, and I thought it would be nice to share it with you all. Over the course of the next 2 weeks, I need to create a Sitemap for my page and build in an RSS feed. At the moment, I have no idea how to do either of these things, so it should be quite the eye opener for me. I will keep everyone posted on what I find out as I work through it, and I will also let everyone know when it is finished, so that you can check it out if you are so inclined. The link to my page for that class is below, for anyone interested.

http://majadamska.brinkster.net/  

Validation Programs on the Web

There is a really handy tool for HTML and CSS validation that I was reminded about very recently in a comment on one of my other posts. I personally learned about this tool in the fall of 2011 when I was first starting out in web design.(admittedly, before I realized how much I enjoy it.) I felt, after being reminded of this tool and its usefulness, that I should share it with others who may have not seen the comment that it was posted on. There are actually 2 different tools here, but they are both found on the same page. This is the page of the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C for short), which typically sets the standards used in web coding. The URL for their home page is www.w3c.org. The page can be a bit overwhelming to handle though, so I am going to provide direct links to the validation pages.

HTML: http://validator.w3.org/

CSS: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

What these pages do, is that they allow you to enter your code in a couple of different ways, and then they verify the coding and ensure that you have no errors. You can enter your code in 3 ways.
You can enter the URL of the site itself, if it is currently on the web.
You can upload the file directly from your computer.
Or you can enter the code manually into a text box on the site.

My Page for School.

So, for part of my Advanced Web Development class, we are required to create a page using HTML. This page is uploaded onto a free web server and used to host links to all of our web assignments. Today, I have decided I am going to share that page with this class, so that people can check out some of the stuff I have been working on in my class. It is a work in progress that will be progressively filled in throughout the semester. I also have my assignments from last semester still in the database, but I removed the links to them. I will work on getting them back up soon. The URL for the page is:

http://majadamska.brinkster.net/

These are some examples of pages created with XML and using CSS to style them. Once I get my stuff up from last semester, those are examples of HTML pages, but still using CSS for styling. I hope you all enjoy checking out my beginning work.