Lesson 8 – HTML

At the beginning of the class, I was completely overwhelmed with information on coding and HTML, I had just about heard of HTML before this let alone how to construct it. Though with practice and some useful foundation knowledge I was able to construct a basic document based on John Baskerville – which was a great steppingstone in the right direction for me!

I also learned that it is important to understand structure such as lists, images, links, text, tables etc and that you must actually tell the browser how you want the content to be presented.

I used Visual Studio Code to begin with and used a simple Baskerville text to add in the tags that I had newly learned. This allowed me to split the text into paragraphs, add emphasis to titles and <blockquote> a John Baskerville quote to separate it from the rest of the body text. This was nice to see visually on a web page before adding any CSS next week to make it into a proper webpage.