CSS and tables

After a bit of mucking around I finally got my 2 exercises to look right! Yippee!!!! Guess this CSS stuff isn't half bad, especially if you do it right so your final product comes out how you want it to. Hopefully though, there won't be that many times I will need to do a table when I get out into the real world to do this stuff as I think there is too much stuffing around. But at least I know I can do it.

ta ta for now



Image: 'Setting up the Tables'
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HTML, CSS, drills and other exciting stuff

Today Peter has us doing more stuff to our css for '10 things'. I'm telling you, this is confusing stuff! Maybe I should record it and play it while I'm sleeping lol (i've heard this is a good way to remember stuff)

He's got us adding images to the background, and to different elements. I'm not sure having a background image is a good idea, but using them as borders is interesting.

Didn't want to miss Monday, but life sux that way

Thanks Peter for posting what we did in class on Monday ... I really wanted to be there, but things happened that were out of my control.

Anyway, I have done the tutorial bit today, and am going to do the rest of the stuff on the post tomorrow as I am going to have a full day with no kids, so no interruptions. They won't be getting home till after 5 so I should get a fair bit done. Will post again when I've finished!

Okay ... I'm starting to get another headache trying to figure out where I've gone wrong in my divs for my 10 things index page. Think I'm going to have to walk away for a while and come back later, maybe even start from scratch so I'm not getting so annoyed/frustrated with it and myself. I can say that I will definitely be at TAFE on Monday, no matter what.

FTP Clients

I downloaded a couple of FTP clients that I thought might be good (luckily they were only small file sizes hehe) but couldn't work them out. I opened up FileZilla which I couldn't get my head around when I first installed it but thought I'd give another try. After a few unsuccessful log-in attempts I finally made it. YAY ME!!!!!!

So yeah, I think I'll stick to this one ... free and easy, just like moi! (haha just kidding) You can download it from here if you'd like to try it. Oh, and the site allows you to download for all platforms (FileZilla Client) which includes windows, mac and linux, or just for windows (FileZilla Server). I just tried to download it to catch the file size (I installed it from disc) but it was too quick for me, so I guess it's not too big lol

I really didn't notice that much difference with this and CoreFTP, but Peter told us how to use Core and I worked FileZilla out all by my lonesome. I think the major benefit of FZ is that it is open source. Major Bonus in my book.

I took a look at the wikipedia entry for active/passive FTP (here) and from what I can gather, the difference between the two is where the FTP server binds the source port to. In active mode, it binds it to port 20. In passive mode it binds to a dynamic port between 49152 and 65535.

Anyway, enough from me for now ... i still have some more school work to do, and some housework (okay, lots of that ugh)

ta ta for now

Image: "Frustrated"
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