Tables

Today in Web Design: Tables


A few days ago actually we learned about tables. No not those tables we eat off of mind you. These tables are more akin to data tables on Excel.

Now I won't post another blog about how to do tables because they are a pretty tricky topic, but I will tell you the uses that make them so great.

1. Tables add some shape to you're bland old website.
2. They organize information with more ease than trying to do it with good ol' &nbsp (makes a space in web writing *not sure about CSS*)
3. They're better than desks!

And there you have it folks. A little on the wonderful world of Tables!

Today In English

Today is pretty much a dead day
I understand why we have to day and what would happen if we got the day off today, but MAN am I bored.

Spring break starts tomorrow. Calculus was slow because our teacher still wanted us to prepare for an exam a few weeks away. Needless to say our focus was elsewhere. Chapel was interesting, the seniors ran it and I was able to hear a piano mini-recital and we sung a song from the Lion King. In English there were only 5 of us (~60 people are off to Mexico today so it's been pretty quite). We watched Michael Jackson in Japan. Our teacher was gushing over his dance moves... I'll admit i was jealous. The concert comprised all of his songs, back to back without any breaks. Impressive. I don't think I could have gotten through the first 3 songs (there were about 20) without passing out on stage. We skipped most of the songs but we got to hear "Wanna Be Startin' Something", "Billie Jean", "Thriller", and "Beat It".

That's pretty much what English was like. It could have been worse *shrug*

My Fault

THE SHAME OF MY WEBSITE!!!!!

The words out on the street! Selym's site isn't perfect!
It looks pretty and there's so much on the page you would most likely pass right over it unless you were perusing the page.

That's right...I mean my Images page. OH WOE IS ME!

During the course of this page's creation, I was in and out of class for other events I had planned. I think i missed about 6 days of the 10 we spent working. Once you get down to the "Links" part of the page, it's glorious. I don't quite know what I'm missing. Every time I get a chance to go back and fix it, I end up tricking out whatever site I'm working on...or I start writing a blog...or I stare into space...

Hopefully I'll be able to focus long enough to make my images section as great as the other ones. until then it remains my Achilles Heel!

Colors pt. 2

Now we are onto the second lesson in colors!
We will be talking about Secondary colors and HSV!

Secondary colors and what you get when you combine the Primary (red, green, and blue) colors.
They included Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow (commonly found in color printers) among others. Secondary colors are not natural computer colors.

Now for HSV!

HSV stands for Hue, Saturation and Value. Also known as the hex-cone color model.
1. Hue represents color.
2. Saturation tells the computer how much grey is in the color space.
A) Common values range from 0-100% but can also be 0-1. (0 is grey and 1 is a primary color.)
3. Value (sometimes called "brightness" in which case the term would be HSB) is the brightness of a color, affected by the saturation.
A) Values also range from 0-100%, 0 being completely black. HSV colors are most often used for high quality computer graphics, like pictures.
An advantage of HSV color is the fact that it is closely related to how humans see color, unlike RGB and CMYK which base their colors off of primary colors.

An there you have it folks! A little knowledge about the colors you see in and around your computers!

P.S. If you get water on one of those old glass computer monitors, you can see the breakdown of primary colors. Pretty neat.

Colors pt. 1

This is an introduction to colors, part 1.
Today we will be talking about RGB and Hexidecimal color representation.

The two kind of go hand in hand.

* The R, G,and B stand for the primary colors of light: Red, Green, and Blue.
*RGB are the natural colors a computer has for showing images.
*Red, green, and blue combine in different ways to reproduce all colors.
*A primary use for RGB is for displaying colors on CRT, LCD, or plasma displays (tv, computer, cameras, etc).
Each pixel has a certain value of red, green, and blue. Those values are changed into intensities and that's what we see.
*Color intensities can be set in multiple ways. No intensity is black, full intensity is white.
Intensity values can range from 0~225, 0.0~1.0, or 0~100% per pixel.
Like so:
(225,0,0) Would be pure red.
(1.0,0.0,0.0) Would be pure red.
(100%,0,0) Would be pure red.

Now for Hexidecimal Colors

Hexadecimal, meaning 6/16, is the most recognized way to display colors on a web page.
To put colors in a web page:
text=/font color= "#000000" (color is an attribute so it needs no brackets.)
The digits are in 3 sets of 2: 00[red],00[green],00[blue] (no commas in finished product)
0 is the lowest value and F is the highest. The range is this: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f
Different combinations produce different colors. All 0's make black, all f's make white.

So ends lesson 1