My Best Friend's Website

My best friend and I met in our academic travels. We shared a project one semester and we've been very close friends ever since. She's the writer and I'm the Geek, so it's a good fit. This semester is just like many semesters since we met. I get an email with a very timid question, I call her, and we typically end up creating a project together; she writes and I techno what she writes. I will admit that the reverse is also true. When I need a nurse editor, she gets an email from me.

This semester she's taking a class that requires her to create a web page. On first blush, most semi-techno geeks will think that it's no big deal. For two nurses to attempt this feat without extra help is a BIG deal. My friend's class is one that I took much early in my academic journeys. I had to create the same project, a half way decent looking web page. The project can't not be produced using a software application; you must use html source coding to create it. Yes, two nurses had to write html source code to create a webpage.

Okay, I see that "deer in the headlights" expression on your face. So as you're looking at this web page, right click your mouse. One of the choices is "View Source" and a screen will pop up with some very scary stuff. That stuff is the html source code. It' how the computer knows what to use and how to display the web page. Believe it or not, the source code you just looked at is fairly standardized across the Internet. The biggest headache to "writing" this code, it that if one thing is not just right, then your web page either does not open, it doesn't remotely look like what you wanted, and/or attached hyperlinks don't work.

I fortunately saved the html source code for my project and was able to assist her. Her page was up and running over the course of about six hours, a gazillion emails, and just as many phone calls. But the page worked, the decorative background looked great, the variety of fonts and headers all looked as required by the project, the pictures were visable, the linked pdf file worked, and the hyperlink worked. She and I were both happy with the final results.

There is always method in my madness. I presented this reflection of my friend's project and the work involved to get it completed, for a reason. I have only one question to ask you.How much of this description did you understand.....Html? Source code? Web page? Right click? Mouse? Pop-up screen? Fonts? PDF file? Hyperlink?

The way I look at this.....even if you only got one or two right answers, you have education technologies to thank.