Lab 9 Reflection

     In Lab 9 we employed the use of internal CSS to make a webpage about our favicon. The first thing we did was open up a new HTML document. Before I did anything I set up the <styles> tags in between the <head> tags in the document. The reason I did this was because in between these style tags I could change the look of my page through use of CSS. After doing this I continued as usual, adding elements in the body of the HTML document that I wanted in my page. But when it came to changing looks I went to the style tags instead of using inline CSS like I did before.
     CSS works differently from the <styles> tags than from inline. When working with CSS from these tags you must first use a selector to select the item; usually an element, class, or id; that you want to change the look of. Once you've typed the selector of the item you must insert curly brackets after the selector. Inside these curly brackets is where most of the styling happens. You can choose a property of that selector to change inside these brackets, such as color. Once you've typed the property name you insert Colon and a value for that property.
     These skills are important for a web designer because internal CSS expands a web designer's ability to make a webpage or website look nice. Inline CSS can become a very tedious process because CSS must be inserted for every item individually. Even items that will have the same style will have to be done separately. In addition, inline can get very messy and unorganized which can make it hard to track what you're doing to an item. Internal CSS eliminates the tedious process of styling in many aspects. You can assign multiple items an id or class on select the id/class in the CSS to stylize all items belonging to that id/class. It makes the design process a bit faster which is important in the real world when deadlines are serious. The added organization of internal CSS also makes it that you are better able to track and see what changes you made to the look of some items.

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