Jenny Townes


Week 7 Reading Notes

1. How the material helped
The section on the Property Inspector was useful. I noticed during class last week that when I moved my cursor down the page in Dreamweaver, a window at the bottom kept changing its information. Now I know what that was and what it's used for.
The section on modifying page properties was helpful as well. It almost seems like cheating to use Dreamweaver that way.
I was happy to learn how to pad the spaces inside a cell in a table. Last week in class I couldn't figure out how to do it and the spacing in the table we made just didn't look right.
The section on tables in the second reading was very helpful. I would like to add a sophisticated table to my webpage and have been designing one since the previous class. I just didn't know how to create it in HTML, though.
I liked learning about frames. I'd always wondered what the HTML looked like in webpages with multiple frames and hw that worked exactly.

2. What I didn't understand
Why does Dreamweaver need a button for 'unusual symbols'? I don't really understand the site definition section. It was a bit confusing when you don't have access to Dreamweaver on your home computer.
I didn't understand the layout section in the second reading very well. The layout cells tool looks like it will be a useful tool, but I'm still not very sure how to use it.
Cascading Style Sheets as a whole is very confusing for me. I hope we spend some time in class going over it.

3. Additional questions