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What a week! Being behind is not a good thing to find yourself in time-wise.

Taking on 12 credit hours while working is not either, but there is enough time if it is invested wisely.

This week was the root of our website, which I had thought was going to be easy until I got myself hooked into the CSS side of things and then even testing to see if PHP was supported. These things should have come earlier in the progress of this project. The tables however were simple to make. Color and more design will no doubt flow in soon.

I spent so much time on the implentation of the two dynamic sides of the project that I lost sight of developing more of the table properties. I wanted to stay very close to using CSS but then ended up running out of time again and had to hard code some aspects I really wish I didn’t.

Overall, I will be able to have a rotating and very dynamic site for news. It will be interactive but possibly no draggable links. When my sub pages are fleshed out more, I will have to make that leap. For now, I am all google api busted and php’d out with table headers on top for now.

The interesting part of this lesson is the use of tables. Tables were something that did the job for many years, but I never realized an even better alternative would possibly exist for the output from programs like php before table generators were developed. The <pre> tag is a wonderful way now that I intend to use in quick scripts to output what I can already easily do. The tag enables the output from simple scripts, which can appear almost like a table.

I would be a user classified as proficient at tables and also at the use of a DIV. However, this week really gave me a gentle understanding again of what tables really were trying to accomplish all those years ago. Learning some of the basics that Google had returned in the past reminds me that some of this will all be hidden to me as a programmer, but if I was the sole webmaster of a small place of business, then I might be more apt to learn the code.

While I do not know about the general use of aural technology described in the book as being prevalent, I can certainly see that there is a use for it. I am positive that many makers of the web page to speech technology have cursed tables for years.

Image maps are a piece of the Internet I have been blessed to completely avoid.  I never understood why that type of design must be forced into the Internet, but I avail that some types of maps for instance will do well with the image map. Flash I feel has over taken this type of technology, but all to well, I know that an iPhone would enjoy the use of an image map and Flash it just simply cannot do.