Wow! My students are making such great progress!
Today, nearly everyone had a validated index page, and those who didn't were only a few small steps away from success.
I hope that students appreciated the short lesson on Windows keyboard shortcuts. I know that they'd like to be more efficient users of computers—if only because they spend so much of their lives on-line! And who doesn’t like to sharpen her skills?
The experience of designing and creating pages is helping students understand a “painful” truth: no matter how hard we try, we can’t control in every detail how a page appears on a reader’s screen. In fact, we can provide only an approximation of our ideal page, because we’ll always be at the mercy of different operating systems, browsers, and display devices (CRT & LCD monitors, smartphones, iPods, and so on).
There’re some interesting applications which I think my students would enjoy adding to their web design tool boxes: Firefox,—especially with the LinkChecker 0.6.6 and NoScript 2.0.3 add-ons, and NoteTab Light, a seriously powerful text editor.
Whatever tools they use, I know my students will continue to make great progress!
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