My Very Own Web page!

I remember when I was younger and Myspace was the popular form of social media, well, it was pretty much the only form of social media.  I never knew that when I changed my background color, my pictures, my fonts and my text it was I altering the HTML of my Myspace account.  Seriously, how cool is that?  Myspace created a place for users to go and utilize HTML.  Gosh, I used to spend hours and days changing the layout of my Myspace because it was so fascinating to me. 

It is an understatement for me to say I was excited to have this assignment.  And I was always excited to know what it was I was doing to my Myspace account many years ago.  To begin my HTML web page I needed to think of what it was going to be about.  I picked something very close to me: Phi Sigma Sigma and The National Kidney Foundation.  Each year we donate time and money to support the NKF so I thought it would be a great thing to highlight in my web page.  After I chose my topic of information it was time for the fun to begin; yes, it was time to code!

Coding to me seemed relatively easy.  I used a learning guide on http://w3schools.com/html/, a website Dr. Bock provided for us, to create my hypertext markup.  For me, it was a lot of copy and pasting and then taking out what did not apply to my page and inputting what did.  For example, to create my heading I used <h1>My First Heading</h1>, took out “My First Heading” and put “Phi Sigma Sigma: We Walk To Save Lives.”  The most challenging part was adding an image.  I found it difficult to add an image from Facebook because my pictures are private; therefore, the image was not able to appear because it was not a public JPEG.  I had to save the image, open it in a web page and then copy the JPEG image file for it to work.  What I found to be most fun and interesting was adding a link.  I chose to add two links into my text paragraph.  I created a hyperlink to the Phi Sigma Sigma international homepage and to the NKF Walk homepage.  I thought it was awesome that I was able to create links within my paragraphs.

The most important parts of the hypertext was always remembering to put ‘<’ at the beginning and ‘>’ at the ending of each section.  If one of these were forgotten all the text would appear.  I thought it would be cool to make the background orange because it is the color associated with the National Kidney Foundation.  Just as I did for the other parts I copy and pasted the code from the website and changed my desired color to “orange.”  Overall, being able to use HTML was a great experience and brought back some great memories.