What's a DNS?
DNS= Domain Name System
It turns your url into an IP address (string of unique numbers).
The domain name servers help your computer figure all this out.
I found this website very helpful: http://www.howstuffworks.com/dns.htm
I took my photos the other day while working at a coffee shop.
The first one is of tiles on the floor, which reminded me of a table and the rows. I could have maybe done a list, but this was the first thing I thought of.
Using: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element
I was particularly excited about this since it's something I looked into a few months ago, but gave up on. Not this time.
I'm on a Macbook Air, so I tested two of the three, since you had to pay for one and I'm not yet ready to make that commitment!
So.... I think I'm going to go with Text Wrangler. It's super simple and free and that works fine for now. Maybe later I'll switch.
I tested Sublime Text as well and I like the bright colors, but it's almost a little too fancy for me. I kind of like Text Wrangler's Word-look, it's what I'm used to.
I may keep trying both as we progress and see what happens...
I did it a few times, but the only web thing I know is basic code, so I found this pretty easy. I use a lot of tags in my everyday work, although I didn't know what some of the codes were, particularly:
<!DOCTYPE html>: I can figure this out, but recall a longer string from a class I took
<meta charset="utf-8">: My guess is that this tells you what language/characters to put the page in.
Looking at other people's pages for the next challenge, I realized I didn't indent so well. I'll definitely work on that....
I've taken some xhtml and css classes in my spare time, but never seem to finish. I want to learn to code and recently found the School of Webcraft for a work project. I'm hoping this time works!
Interesting facts about me:
- I love to sew- I run a sock monkey making company (www.monkeysandmittens.com)
- I love to travel and have been to over 23 countries.
- I recently moved to California (Silicon Valley- hence the interest in programming)
- One of my eyes is two different colors.
