And the XHTML begins...

re the last class - I quite enjoyed it, actually. I've set up and looked after databases before (when Tim asked he class if there was anyone that had been a database administrator, I hadn't even thought that might apply to myself, but I guess it does...). This being said, my databases weren't quite as complex as the video store example we worked through on Tues night.

It was a great way to get your head around how everything linked up, and how many tables to make etc. I found the exercise reading the table out strangely useful (not to mention challenging, I keep trying to go back to the 'pretend its a blind person on the phone you are describing it to' thing, yet still struggling not to miss things out). The whole arrow over the box thing also confused me slightly - which one to use when etc, but Tim had a go explaining it again, so I think I get it now...I suspect some trial and error using it in practice is what will gel it in my head!

I was absolutely horrified in class to find out we were allowed to submit out work in valid XHTML - of any kind!!! I was sure there was something, somewhere that said it had to be strict...why else would i have picked that? If Eric hadn't also been under the same impression, I would feel way worse. I think of that first assignment I banged my head against the wall over - it probably would have gone through fine with transitional XHTML! Oh well, at least now i get the strict one, which should mean I can write any of them...like learning to drive a manual car...

The older I get the more I'm realising the worth in planning things out before launching into the build, as far as saving time, long term. Especially when you aren't 100% sure of what you are doing. It certainly seems to be true of all of the subjects I'm doing this semester. Lots of planning going into things. This being said, I started building the XHTML for my final project today. Need work out the whole form issue ie how I'm going to do it all. I'm also thinking about adding a comments page on the last page. But is this something that should be moderated somehow? ie how I am going to set it up so Sue can take off any comments that might be wrong for the business? Will they just send the comments to her and she can decide what to post? How will she pot them if I do that? Decisions, decisions...but first, system plan peer review time...