Classes This Quarter

[major_kerina]

I'm not gonna say "easy" because that would be speaking too soon. But one class amounts to learning how to pick the most scholarly references for research but not actually writing a research paper (don't even need a thesis). So I'm not sweating it.

The grammar course is going to be interesting because of being completely online (mostly unsupervised). It might be nice because I can just do it whenever I like and the only graded portions are the four tests based directly off of readings.

So I feel good. I zonked for about three hours after my proclamation of site-building intent. My site may not be pretty at first (likely won't be), but I'm gonna give it love to grow. ^^

Comments

[undeadkrunchy.livejournal.com]

Watch out for the online course...it's really easy to just forget about it, since it's not on a set schedule...@_@

[major-kerina.livejournal.com]

Good point, there is a pacing guide to help keep my honest though. Tomorrow, I'll take the pre-test and see what I can do about digging into course materials.

[undeadkrunchy.livejournal.com]

Yay! That's always good to have. With mine, they just kinda threw me to the wolves with little-to-no direction...

[major-kerina.livejournal.com]

Well...I'm still hesitant because the reactions people have are varied.

one - "I could do it in my sleep."
another - "You could train a monkey to do it in its sleep. Some people complained it was too hard though."
And one last night - "I have dylexia so I don't understand the I forms with the backwards E. I dropped it."

[undeadkrunchy.livejournal.com]

I could see where taking a class of this sort would be kinda difficult online. I'm kinda lucky that when I took my linguistics/grammatical courses, I had two totally awesome teachers who helped me a bunch. Otherwise, with my dyslexia, I probably would've had problems, too.

But I have total confidence in you! I think grammar courses are kinda fun, once you get into the nitty and the gritty. But, then, I'm weird. ^^;

[jaimehlers.livejournal.com]

Regarding your site, here's a couple of suggestions to make it easier for you.

First, get yourself some web space. I would suggest one of the free online webservers (Geocities or Lycos, to name two) at first, since you don't have to pay anything for them. You can always upgrade to a paid subscription or find a better webserver later, but right now you should probably focus on getting something set up.

Also, here's some basic HTML tips so you can get a basic page set up. The first thing you need to remember is that the basic "home" page for your site should always be titled index.html. It's so that the server knows what to display if someone goes to your web domain (such as http://herald.midnightaurora.com). If you don't have an index page, the server may display an error, or it may display a list of all the files in the root directory.

Second, if you want to provide a URL link to another website, you use the following format: a href="http://www.sample.com/", surrounded by brackets. After that, you put the text you want to display, followed by a /a tag (also surrounded by brackets).

Third, to provide line breaks, you add the br tag (all tags are opened by < and closed by >). Also, if you want to use a header, you use the h3 and /h3 tags.

These are all very basic HTML commands, but it'll let you get something set up. I would also suggest that you pick up a basic HTML book. They shouldn't be too expensive, and HTML is very easy to learn. I taught myself how to program a fairly simple website in about a month's time, and by the end of that time I could write out the code on paper and then just type it into the computer.

Obviously, if you intend to get the help of someone more proficient at website programming, you won't need all this, strictly speaking. However, it's never a bad idea to at least get your feet wet. And who knows? You might find that it's something you enjoy doing on your own.