a tale of two webpages

For my first assignment in my InfoTech a.k.a. Information Technologies for Libraries and Information Agencies class (see why they shorten it???), I had to build a series of webpages using tables on any topic I wanted. I also had to pick a creative commons image related to my topic and build the pages around it.

The final result met all of the requirements perfectly, but I can see why they don't use tables very often anymore - it's ugly - but, you have to start somewhere I guess. For the second assignment I had to use the same topic and images, but format the whole thing using CSS . . .

. . . much prettier in my opinion, but still lacking. I can see why CSS is so popular. This one only required simple CSS, but what a difference.

I really like this class. My other class is fun too, but I like not knowing exactly how something works and then getting it to work. I'm excited for the next one which will be on a completely different topic (advantages of open-source software anyone?) and then the final project - a whole website! And no specific requirements to meet (other than applying what I've learned and making the "customer" happy . . . oh, and everything has to load correctly).

I hope they just keep getting prettier.