Off to a great start

Exercise 4: Registration in progress

I’ve sent Bethany an email with the URL for my blog and the name of my blog. I hope that it will show up soon in the list of participants. This was a step that confused me last year and I wasn’t able to find a work-around. This year, for some reason, I found the directions clear as a bell.

Recording my progress is easy at this point. I love to write, and I’m having fun learning about these new technologies. It’s also a gas to refresh my HTML coding skills. Back in the mid-1990s, I used to know loads of HTML codes by heart. Then along came web editors and I got spoiled.

Despite the ease of web editors, I prefer knowing HTML code because all too often web editing programs insert extraneous codes. Knowing the codes also gives you greater control in tweaking a web page. Of course, web pages were a lot simpler back in those days: no Java scripts, no Flash, no whatever cool tools are being used nowadays. In fact, web developers didn’t even use tables much, which was more beneficial for people using web readers.