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June 16, 2005
Rainy Days and Web Pages.
It's a rainy, chilly summer afternoon and I'm link-checking.
The problem of having a reasonably link-rich set of web pages for students is that if you're the least bit responsible you'll check the links periodically (and post the date of said link-checkery). I checked the links last fall but quite a few of them have fallen by the wayside since and there are other similar out-datednesses. Still, it's a good way to spend a day inside.
We have been encouraged to use Blackboard for the last few years, but both the people most responsible for that have left for other pastures this summer so we may be back to HTML. I noted that Prof. Burke was struggling with CSS. I have decided that it is an exclusionary tool invented by a clerisy to keep the peasants incapable of distributing information for themselves. I learned to write simple HTML in 15 minutes (how much is there to a tag?) and my pages worked fine. The improvements driven by all this much more elaborate back-stage code are, I think, overrated. I'm even taking off the backgrounds as I go this time. Stark. Simple. Content-driven. That's my rationalization and I'm sticking to it, for now.
Of course, if I could figure out how to get Tinderbox to do what I want it to do I'd probably try that, but given my time constraints I'm better off with HTML and as few colors as possible.
Further: O.K., o.k., I'm reading the webmonkey tutorials on CSS. Ugh. I'm also emailing the folks at Tinderbox; I can't get things to export very usefully.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 16, 2005 2:22 PM