When I started this assignment, I thought all we had to do was put hyperlinks into the fragment assignment. Piece of cake, I actually knew how to do this part of the assignment. I was looking forward to it, actually, and was quick to start looking for words to use and websites to embed. Of course, things are never that simple. Then I realized we had to create an externally linked style sheet. Gulp! I was in trouble!
After reading over what I had to do in order to complete this type of style sheet I was horribly confused. I had used CSS in my Seton Hill University webpage, so I was somewhat familiar. However, when we wanted to create the same background/format for each page we simply cut and pasted. We did not have to create an externally linked style sheet. So my past experience was not going to be any help.
So, I did the easiest part, for me, first. I went through and created 12 hyperlinks for different words in the text. I tried to give more information for words/places people might not be familiar with. I also tried to put at least one hyperlink in each paragraph. When I was done I went to the web address..http://www.pitt.edu~anh55/Thoreau_fragment_2.html to check and double check that all the links worked.
Then I started working on the style sheet. I created my .css file (like it said in the book) and added all of my rules into it. Then I typed the appropriate link information into the Thoreau file, removed certain tags and prayed. The moment of truth had arrived and it was time to see if my style sheet had linked properly and would work. I typed the web address in and hit enter. Of course, it did not work and my fragment assignment was a complete mess. It didn’t work the next 12 times I tried to do it, either. I also tried @ import linking and that didn’t work. I kept playing around after an hour of failing, I was pretty mad. Also in my works, sort of deleted the entire assignment off of my unixs file. I panicked, because I had erased everything, all of my hyperlinks and the majority of my work. In a moment of clarity, I typed in the web address and by some miracle the website was still there with all of the hyperlinks. I opened the source information and copied and pasted it into a new file. Everything had been saved!
I ended up turning to the internet for help. I eventually found a website that helped me to figure out what I was doing wrong. Even now I’m still not sure what happened. But it worked and my style sheet linked up to the webpage.
Once, I figured that out I quickly completed the assignment! Now only a few more blogs and an electronic portfolio and I’m done!
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