Lesson review(4th lesson, 13 april)

The IT lesson for today was on CSS. Though this time, I find that this lesson is the hardest to understand so far as CSS is quite complicated for beginners. But, I think that mr kent did a good job and taught us just enough important points on CSS for us to understand it and finish the assignment without much problems/trouble.

1.About CSS

Firstly, I would like to say that CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet.
Cascading Style Sheet is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML.
CSS is also designed primarily to enable the separation of document content written in HTML or other similar markup languages from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colour or fonts.
This can also improve contents accesibility, and to enable multiple pages to share formatting.

2.The CSS Challenge

This was an assignment given to us by mr kent and it is more of an add-on to the HTML Challenge that we had done last week. We were supposed to try out CSS by using it to edit the news document that we had done using HTML.
I feel that this was not much of a challenge as the skeleton of the CSS document we were suppose to create was already done for us and that we just needed to copy it from the handouts that were given. The rest however, was just pure experimenting with the elements such as the border of the background around the news document.
The main thing that I have learnt about CSS though, was that CSS is used to enhanced the way of presentation of your documents and also to beautify the documents. It is also convenient as you can edit multiple pages of a website at once to save time and make it less complex or confusing.
One very important thing to note about the assignment is that we have to copy and paste the link into the HTML notepad we had done at the HEAD section to allow the CSS to work. Another thing is that the two documents must be in the same folder or else, the HTML web page would not be able to locate the CSS and so, the whole thing would still be the same old, dull and boring unedited white backgorund.

I found this assignment quite essential to our overall understanding of CSS and its uses. I also reflected that if I had not made the choice of doing this alone, I would not have gotten this personal experience in doing CSS and that would be a very big disadvantage for me in the near future as I'm quite sure there will be a IS test around the next or next 2 weeks.
I would also like to take this oppurtunity to thank mr kent for creating this assignment for us and doing a good job at teaching us about CSS.