[FM Discuss] html manual

[adam]

hey ed :)

cool...i think we could make this html editor free for now...just teach
the concepts and syntax etc...that way its generically applicable to
anyone that wants to learn about the web....

what do you think would be a good chapter structure?

adam


On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 09:24 -0400, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 07:03, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > would anyone like to help me make a manual on HTML?
> 
> Sure.
> 
> > i was thinking of an outline to support this course:
> > http://p2pu.org/webcraft/web-development-101/document/syllabus-web-development-101-0
> >
> > i started with the docs they already have but i found that actually the
> > flow of the material is not very good...you can see the start here:
> > http://www.booki.cc/sowc/edit/#
> >
> > (you need to log into booki first)
> >
> > for example, there are topics introduced in week 2 that are covered in a
> > more basic way than the same topic in week 1. For example week 1 covers
> > 'what is html' in a very brief way but gets quite techy while week 2
> > starts off with basic info on the structure of an html doc (which is
> > already covered in week 1)
> >
> > i wrote to the course organiser to see if she would like us to help make
> > this a book. Looking forward to her answer but I am kind of inclined to
> > do it anyways since it would be a good book to have. But to do so I
> > think we almost have to start from scratch.
> 
> I'm going to take a look at the topics. I suggest an "HTML by Example"
> approach, where we start with the simplest possible "Hello, World."
> page and then add features just a few at at time. I would encourage
> readers to compare the new code with the rendered page each time
> before reading our explanations.
> 
> Should we explain a Free HTML editor such as Quanta Plus in the process?
> 
> I assume that we don't want to get into CSS or JavaScript in this volume.
> 
> > I was also thinking it would be good to take this to Barcelona to print
> > (nov 3-5) at the drumbeat fest...
> 
> Good. I won't have time until after the elections here on Nov. 2.
> 
> > anyone keen to lose some days and nights and tag team this until its
> > done?
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
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