The Busy Bee
So, I've been rather busy lately. Last week I once again pushed a great deal of my homework to the weekend because I spent three nights working until midnight, and after work I did not want to stay up and do homework. Well, then on Thursday I won a gift card to the campus bookstore for the third highest GPA in the sophomore class. First of all, that threw me off because I thought I was a freshman, but apparently after twenty four credits the university considers you a sophomore, and I have thirty four. Either way, I was elated, and went to the book store on Friday to take advantage of the spirit sale, which takes twenty percent off all MU Logo items.
However, once I arrived at the book store, I could not decide what I wanted to buy. I was thinking of buying a scarf and a new coffee mug, or a new blanket, a new hat and t-shirt, or a new hoodie. None of these options really appealed to me, so I went to look at the books. I was thinking of teaching myself JavaScript this summer, so I figured I might grab a JavaScript book if there was one in stock. I quickly located the HTML for Dummies book, but I could not find one on JavaScript. However, right next to HTML for Dummies book was a book simply titled XHTML. I was confused and intrigued. I before then I had seen HTML and XML, but never XHTML.
Well, as I had guessed, XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML, however, it is a bit more complicated than that. In all actuality, XHTML is an XML vocabulary that uses the HTML tags as its markup elements. Either way, I read a little of the introduction to the book and decided to make it my purchase. I spent all day Friday reading it, and then started reformatting my site into XHTML on Saturday night. By 2:00AM I had nearly finished converting half of joshlaughlin.com from HTML to XHTML, and I started again yesterday once I finished all of the homework I had been putting off.
As of now, the entirety of joshlaughlin.com, including this blog and the reality of the situation, have been converted to XHTML.
When I find some free time I am going to use the book to help me learn more about dXHTML, or dynamic XHTML. I would like to make my site more dynamic and user friendly, and hopefully attract some more viewers.
Either way, I failed at trying to be more concise, sorry. I hope you check out my site and try to spot the differences. They're very minute, but I did fix a lot of errors in my code and a few broken links. Keep on the watch for new additions because I'm really in the web design mood lately.
Later,
Joshua
However, once I arrived at the book store, I could not decide what I wanted to buy. I was thinking of buying a scarf and a new coffee mug, or a new blanket, a new hat and t-shirt, or a new hoodie. None of these options really appealed to me, so I went to look at the books. I was thinking of teaching myself JavaScript this summer, so I figured I might grab a JavaScript book if there was one in stock. I quickly located the HTML for Dummies book, but I could not find one on JavaScript. However, right next to HTML for Dummies book was a book simply titled XHTML. I was confused and intrigued. I before then I had seen HTML and XML, but never XHTML.
Well, as I had guessed, XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML, however, it is a bit more complicated than that. In all actuality, XHTML is an XML vocabulary that uses the HTML tags as its markup elements. Either way, I read a little of the introduction to the book and decided to make it my purchase. I spent all day Friday reading it, and then started reformatting my site into XHTML on Saturday night. By 2:00AM I had nearly finished converting half of joshlaughlin.com from HTML to XHTML, and I started again yesterday once I finished all of the homework I had been putting off.
As of now, the entirety of joshlaughlin.com, including this blog and the reality of the situation, have been converted to XHTML.
When I find some free time I am going to use the book to help me learn more about dXHTML, or dynamic XHTML. I would like to make my site more dynamic and user friendly, and hopefully attract some more viewers.
Either way, I failed at trying to be more concise, sorry. I hope you check out my site and try to spot the differences. They're very minute, but I did fix a lot of errors in my code and a few broken links. Keep on the watch for new additions because I'm really in the web design mood lately.
Later,
Joshua
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