Hello BDF family! By this point we should be finished with our first step of making our webpage using only text based tags. Meaning, we only have text on our page when it's displayed, with some amount of spacing based on student's preferences and future plans. As I've also told everyone last class, today we will be learning the second language in this class which will be easier to comprehend as only the way we write it will need to be learned. This is because it uses terms we're already familiar with, like color and font-size. This new language and file type is called CSS, which stands for Cascading Style Sheet. As some may guess from the name, we will be using this to "style" our page, giving it color and changing the defaults of the tags to make the page look more like the one we want to make.
Our goal for today is to learn the syntax (rules and how to write it) of CSS as well as the parts of a "rule-set" which affects our webpage. We'll also be learning about one new tag, the <link> tag and the attributes rel and href used within the tag to link the CSS file to the HTML. This will be a lot of new information and I promise to take my time with it to an extent, so we will focus on taking notes, practicing, and debuging CSS first. If we have enough time, I will show both groups (the mac users and the PC users) how to zip the files together for submission, but today grades will be taken in person prior to the end of class so students are encouraged to pay attention and follow along.