Remember that time you went over to the Hulsey Wellness Center here at Southern and it was closed?

Annoying wasn’t it?

If only there was an iPhone/iPod Touch app that could remind you the times it was open.  Ooh. And it’d be cool if it told you what events were going to happen.  And if it had a pedometer! And a rep counter!

Man. That would be awesome, wouldn’t it? Too bad there’s no such thing……..

….until now.

Introducing the Hulsey Wellness Center App. ‘Cause it’s annoying accidentally going there when it’s closed.

I’m adding a form to that landing page I posted so proudly the other week.  Adding a form is relatively easy, and, dare I say, fun!

Oh? What? You want to learn how to do it? Way to show enthusiasm. For a simple form all you have to do is add the form tag and some other important selectors.  But, reader, I know that you’re like me and you learn better visually.  I get you. So here’s an example:

By typing this code,

“<form>

Enter Mumbo Jumbo Here: <input type=”text” name=”mumbojumbo” size=”10″ maxlength=”15″>

</form>”

You get this impressive looking thing:

Anyway.  I tried to do something pretty wicked and cool by making the form a pop-up window that would fade in and out neatly.  For the most part I succeeded, but it still looks, for the most part, pretty bland along with other derogatory terms, therefore I feel embarrassed to show you, readers, the result of my toiling away today.  Plus, the coding is not all the way finished yet.  There’s still some php nonsense that I have to throw in there.  But the task of implementing a form into my landing page has been accomplished, prettying it up and making it actually do something will come at a later date.

Look forward to it.

…are both things I need to learn, like, yesterday.

Right now I’m reading about HTML 5, which just seems like a more semantically correct version of HTML, which I’m all for.  In the meantime, though, I need to learn what these different words mean in the HTML 5 context.  I mean, if I had it my way, coding a website would be laughably easy.

In HTML Brenden, the user could use whatever dialect they are used to for their elements.  Also, if you forgot a colon or something, it’d give you a break, it knows you have it tough already, and link you to a funny cat video or something.

Sadly. My version of HTML isn’t ready for the public, yet. So I’m learning HTML 5.

In HTML 5, there’s new elements like section, which is pretty much, well, a section in an article (or a generic section of a document or application according to http://www.impressivewebs.com/html5-section/).  Speaking of article.  An article is, according to the HTML Pocket Guide, any independent item of content that is pretty much meant to be distributed.

There’s also things like the header and footer elements which are pretty much self-explanatory, well, except that the header element doesn’t go in the head element like I foolishly first thought.  These are all pretty much nested in the article, which is in turn nested in the body.

There’s also an element known as address which is used for contact info and stuff like that.  Usually, address is found in the footer, because it seems to look cool that way.

HTML 5 also, according to the book, seems to do away with the terms in-line and block.  I kinda see how, since it seems to leave a lot of stuff to CSS.  Still, they’re there if that makes sense.

But forget about that.  Let’s talk about Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS for those not-in-the-know, which was me a couple minutes ago.

Reading over CSS again, I’m now confident to say that this is less of a refresher and more of a re-learning.

The main thing to know about CSS is that it’s what makes everything look pretty.  HTML is pretty much the skeleton.  CSS is the skin.  There’s some effects it can do, like rotation, which does exactly what it says and seems to have no practical use, except it’d be cool if someone found one.  There’s also 3D transformations, which, in case you didn’t know, is pretty sweet.

But yeah. That’s the gist of CSS and HTML 5.  Well, as much as my brain will allow me to handle right now.