Week 8 Readings

W3schools HTML Tutorial
At first I thought that I knew absolutely noting about HTML. That is still pretty much true. But there were a couple of things that did look familiar from -and I'm embarrassed to admit this- LiveJournal. While using LJ, people use simple html a lot. They use HTML to make "cuts" on their journal that will take them from a brief description of what their journal post is about to an extended entry. This makes the initial post smaller, which is vital to LJ. People on LJ usually have a very long "friends lists" that shows all the posts of each of their friends. These posts need to be short so that people can quickly scroll through their "flist" and choose which posts they want to delve deeper into. If a LJ user makes a very long post on their journal or on a community's journal without any cuts, you can bet they will get comments saying "CUT PLEASE!"

HTML Cheatsheet
This is much clearer than the first guide. I could see this being very useful for starting off with HTML.

W3 School Cascading Style Sheet Tutorial
It seems like CSS is in improvement on HTML for 2 reasons
1. It gives you the ability to give your backgrounds pictures and general richer visuals
2. More options when it comes to borders, outlines, lists, and tables.

Goans, D., Leach, G., & Vogel, T. M. (2006). Beyond HTML: Developing and re-imagining library web guides in a content management system.
It is encouraging that librarians were involved in developing their web guides. So often we are more or less at the mercy of the technology that we have to use. If we do not like our database, if our website isn't user friendly, tough luck, we're told. In this instance, the librarians and web developers designed something that will surely make it easier for librarians and their patrons to access information.