Topic One: A Websites Structure (Chapter One)
The structure of a website is similar to the structure of a lot of paper copies of things. This includes a header at the top of the page telling you what you are reading or maybe the form you are filling out. Then, there is a main/body that is filled with all the information and text. Even at the doctors office when you are filling out forms the main is all the information that you are filling in. Finally, at the end there is a footer. This is probably the most different from the website to a publication or document, but overall it sums up what you are viewing. In web design HTML is what describes and creates the structure of a page.
Topic Two: Learning About Code (Chapter 1)
When learning about code you used to only learn from others. This meant looking up other site code, and sometimes taking it to use it for your own site. But now you can use "textbooks", or other informational websites to gain knowledge about coding. Looking a big sites coding can be very scary and seem like there is a lot going on but once you peal it back, it can be very easy to understand - if you know the basics.
Topic Three: Understanding How CSS Works (Chapter 10)
A great way to think about CSS is imagining there is a box around every HTML element. CSS will treat each HTML element like it is its own thing. It also allows you to be able to create rules that control each box. Some of the styles you can control in CSS is width and height, borders (color,width and style) , background color and images, position in the browser window, typeface, type size, type color, italics, bold, uppercase, lowercase, small-caps.