Week Tw2

Week two went over much more smoothly for me. Basically we were just revising everything form week one and filling the void. I had done some additional reading, so i came sorta prepared. Having read week one notes, going over was just to get the information registered. Structure of the webpage was the main topic this week. Structuring under the rules of xhtml rather than html required some added rules. Again the four main elements of a webpage was emphasized, html; the root element of the page which contains all the other elements, head; the element that acts as a container for other header elements, title; the element that identifies the content of the document , it provides an insight to what the page is about and the body; the element which contains the actual information that is shown on the page.

Additionally, we learn that some elements can carry what are called attributes which is in the opening tag of an element and provides extra information about the element that carries them. The head, and body element utilizes them alot. Within an hour we covered all that was learnt in week one and then we were on to new things. Other than structure, a web page needs an appearance that is appropriate to the information being present. That is where the body element plays a vital role. Information can be organized in the body with the use of Heading levels and presentation elements. Heading levels are basically headers that give hierarchy to information, heading level 1 being the highest and heading level 6 being the lowest. It is very obvious that heading level 1will get more attention than say level 6. Presentation elements also serve a similar purpose where they give style to words which makes them stand out. So from bold to italics, even underlined to striked through, information can be organized meaningfully on a webpage. Though some of these presentation elements are deprecated in xhtml, it is useful for designers to know them.