When I confronted my course Presenting Content this semester with the basics of HTML and CSS, they and I had a couple of frustrating sessions. I’m doing this for some semesters now and never had quite such an experience. I was thinking: Am I this bad a teacher to not get the stuff across (it’s not that hard, after all) or did I hint at Weebly.com too early and most of the classes just switched off as early as this?

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Welcome to the first episode of a series of HTML/CSS tutorials that deal with the application of CSS techniques in a real life setting. The series is supposed to be used in an upcoming course at the University of Marburg, students will be able to try to figure out how to do this.

And this is what we are going to do in this episode: The Virtual Center for Teacher Training has introduced a so called Microprojects Feed, which in return got a box on its own on the left of the portal. We will design this box.

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… and you really, really, really don’t know what to do? Well, let’s see how many CSS properties you can name.

This is how I did in this quiz:

61

Where did that time come from???

I decided to post links in my blog from time to time that are too interesting to get thrown into my del.icio.us vault. Let’s start off with three of them:

1. There are a lot of things to be discovered at Dan Fietsam’s site, although there are far too many Bud ads there. At least for someone from Germany like me. No offence…
2. Molly Holzschlag talks about the future of web standards at Vitamin. It’s a must read.
3. Interesting navigation solution: XRS Nowe Media from Poland.