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    • onMason Round-Up – 4-30-12 April 30, 2012
      Here’s a selection of interesting posts from across onMason. “Federman Beats Cancer” by Gregory Connolly Gregory Connolly’s article takes a highly sympathetic and insightful look at Jacob Federman, a junior sports management major at George Mason who has twice beaten Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After first beating the cancer in high school, he experienced a relapse as a freshman at Mason, […]
    • onMason Round-Up – 4-23-12 April 23, 2012
      Let’s check out some of the most interesting posts from last week throughout onMason. “An interview with Mason Dining’s Dietitian Lois Durant” by Nicole Merrilees This interview with Lois Durant provides insight to the life and hard work of a Mason employee who likely often goes unrecognized for her role in maintaining the high quality of life students […]
    • onMason Round-Up – 4-10-12 April 10, 2012
      In the new onMason round-up we take a look at some of the most interesting posts throughout onMason. “Tragedy and Twitter” by Karina Schulthesis This is an account of how social network sites like Twitter have changed the way people respond to and deal with school shootings. In order to make her article more effective, Karina begins with an […]
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Briggs Review 1: Basic Coding

Posted by jsouthee on February 10, 2011

BRIGGS’ FIRST CHAPTER DABS in HTML and other computer terms that I was not very familiar with, and so I have compiled a list summarizing them:

  • RSS: I’ve known for a long time that RSS feeds existed, but I didn’t know much about what they were. RSS feeds are short summarizing paragraphs of news or other information of your choosing sent to an RSS reader with a permalink to the article. RSSs are updated daily and seem to be an efficient way of obtaining news and other information, however I find that Twitter is even more efficient since you can have a live stream of information.
  • CSS: HTML that makes webpages fancy.
  • FTP: File Transfer Protocol “is a simple process for moving those big files that e-mail can’t handle.” They’re useful when you want to transfer a file larger than 1 MB to another server or computer. You simply download an FTP program, obtain the host address that you want to send the file to and wala!
  • HTML: A little more complicated a subject is HTML which is the code that makes up a website. I tried to make a webpage with HTML code, copying the directions in the book and the best I got was this:

I did exactly what the book said and that’s what happened. I tried adding photos too and the same thing happened- all that showed up on the website is code… I didn’t even bother trying the instructions for CSS to be honest, but hopefully I’ll be able to figure out what went wrong in the near future. Webmonkey, a site Briggs recommended in his book for HTML advice and tutorials, seems to be useful and so I’ll browse that site to see if anything helps.

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