HTML 5 Cheat Sheet

Smashing magazine has provided a very handy cheat sheet for HTML 5 tags online at:
http://media1.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/images/html5-cheat-sheet/html5-cheat-sheet.pdf
I will be printing this off and putting it on the wall above my desk for easy reference. Perhaps it sounds a bit archaic however I believe this way is a handy reference guide for my style of learning.
This weekend will see me working further on my micro and macro analysis. Researching and continuing with the tutorials I have been working on online.

Interesting article HTML 5

I have just come across an interesting article on HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2 explaining the history behind both and why HTML 5 is the next big thing and XHTML 2 is being dropped in favour of the former.
The article is at the following for anyone else interested in a snapshot overview of this:
The reasoning behind creating XHTML 2 by the W3C were sound, "Starting in August of 2002, the authors of the XHTML standard began crafting a new language they hoped would completely retool Web markup for the 21st century, bringing about a golden age of semantic Web pages, interactivity, internationalization, device independence, and tapioca pudding for everyone!" (Cranford Teague 2009, para. 3)
Unfortunately it didn't quite work out that way and HTML 5 turned out to be the better option.
It appears from Jason Cranford Teague that HTML 5 is not as supported just yet but many browsers are looking to support it and it is backwards compatible. The stand-out or should I say hold-out is of course Internet Explorer.

Reference:
Cranford Teague, J 2009, Big Things Ahead for HTML 5, viewed 27th August 2009 at http://www.peachpit.com/blogs/blog.aspx?uk=Big-Things-Ahead-for-HTML-5&ns=16143

CSS and the Zen Garden

I have been checking out quite a few of the resources helpfully supplied online and the Zen Garden is very interesting. You can download a sample HTML and CSS file and play with them to get some experience. This is definitely on the list of things to do this weekend.
I am also looking at working futher through the lynda.org tutorial on HTML to better grasp the basics before class this week. I am finding this helpful and quite motivating as it is not as complex as I thought it would be. This weekend will also involve looking further into PHP and understanding how the server side language interacts with the client side of the site.
I will be doing some further work on my Learning Proposal, tightening things up and sorting out priority A tasks and priority B tasks as well as putting together a schedule to ensure that I am staying on track to have the site up and running by the end of semester.

Week 4 Practical

Lucky for me I am sitting next to Kate who is amazingly patient with me and has been helping me get my head around all of this code. PHP seems as logical as HTML which is a relief as this is the first time I have done anything in it.
It took me a little while to find the 'of' and insert that into the code however the rest was quite easy to follow and put together.

Found a great resource!

One of the guys in my other classes pointed out a great book to me the other day, it is called Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics. I am quite excited about this title as it takes a building on skills approach to web design and for someone who barely knows the basics, hasn't written anything in html before this class and learns from doing I think this is going to be of great benefit to me.
I will be doing further research to find some supporting titles and documents and practicing my html in the next few weeks. Once I have a handle on all the tags I am going to need for my project then I think that things wil go a lot easier.

Learning proposal in draft format

I have now managed to upload this! You can check this out here:
http://www-student.it.uts.edu.au/~lrailey/LearningProposal-template.html

It is very much in draft format.