HTML Help

 Experience with HTML

 I have quite a bit of informal experience with HTML, dating back to being a kid playing Neopets and coding my own little pages for my pets. I have also done a fair bit of work with designing themes for forums as a hobby, and I also have some experience from the graphic design end of things. Most recently however, I became more serious about computers and programming as a potential career path, so I took CIS145 and learned more formally all about HTML!

 Helpful Links

W3 Schools A class site for good reason! W3 Schools is a great page with many different programming languages and thousands of examples. I especially recommend their section on CSS, which was useful for the creation of this very page! The page about glow effects on text was helpful.
HTML.com A site with a lot of tutorials with a very editorial style. This page is somewhat prescriptive, but that can be a good thing to see as a beginner, as long as you are willing to occassionally break the "rules." For example, this site suggests strongly against both table based designs and marquee effects, both of which are used on this page.
MDN Web Docs A great website maintained by Mozilla that has a lot of documentation for learning the foundations of HTML and what all is possible. This page taught me about using multiple images for the background. On this site,, there is both a starry sky image and a gradient overlayed on top of it. The navigation bar and hrizontal rule also contain gradients.
Stack Overflow Honestly a hit or miss site, but often when you are struggling to find answers to your questions, you will find someone who's asked the same thing before. For example, I wanted to know if it was possible to put a gradient on a horizontal rule (the hr tag), and found the question answered here.
CSS Gradient.io I used this site to create the gradient effects I used on this page. They are used in the horizontal rule, the hover effects on the navigation bar on the left, and the background image of this site. This page allows you to create a gradient and automatically converts what you have made into the code to use on your website.