A little CSS help - please?!

I know, I know, many of you are still struggling along with your web portfolios - hopefully, tomorrow's lab will help. I have, however, given several students formative feedback on their websites = those websites seem to be coming along quite well (note: this last sentence suggests that you all might considering emailing me a link to your website so I can provide some feedback.) In an effort to help out those that are getting a little frustrated here are a few links that might of some service:

CSS Edit: This site provides you a trail download of their software that helps you learn, use, and understand CSS. I downloaded it the other day, and have found it pretty useful. I believe it's only for MACS - but of course, anything useful is usually only for MACS.

Edublog: this site is allows you to sign up for a blog/website. It is based off of WordPress; it's rather simple to use - and seems to be fairly stable. The only catch is that I don't think edublog allows you to mess around with and alter the css. If so, this is not a great choice, unless you only need a quick and dirty website that you don't want to have any design control over.


WordPress: this is a great blogging/ website building tool. You can either sign up and host your blog/ site from their site, or if you want to host your own site/ blog WordPress allows you to download it's software. If you do this you will need to have MySql and php running on your server. The main reason to download WordPress and to use it while hosting it from your own server is bc you want to have more control over the look and function of your site. It's really not too difficult to install or use.

Joomla: this is another opensource option. Joomla is a lot like WordPress - but on steroids. It does a lot more than WordPress does - and functions more like Drupal, having a lot of moodle like options (ie. creating surveys, etc.) It is a little more complex - but also more dynamic.


Remember, the main objective of this assignment is to expose you to CSS, HTML, and XHTML. The vehicle to accomplish this is building a personal portfolio website/ blog. Please remember to use all of our blog and website development resources on our delicious account.