Reflections on Computer Assignments: Need CSS help!!!

As I went through the past announcements on our course management system, in order to find out more about how to do an external style sheet for a webpage, I found an announcement on how to delete reserves from Koha. For some reason, I had missed this before. It might be the solution to the problem I had with Koha, where some books were listed as "nonreservable" - see my earlier Koha Assignment post. However, I will not have time to investigate this possibility.

Also I would like to report that my search engine page is now appearing on the web - apparently it did publish, but did now show the other day. So, if I need to, I will be able to link it to my main personal webpage. However, I don't need to right now.

I might not complete the final leg of my computer assignment, I am sorry to report. I have started it, by including the Thoreau excerpt as Thoreau2.html document in Kompozer, and, following directions given, I tried to link el to the external style sheet provided by the instructor. However, even though the sheet showed, the formatting of the document did not change, and I couldn't get the editor to work.

The problem might be that I couldn't directly link to this particular style sheet without first making sure it was in the same directory. I am not sure how to make sure it is in the same directory, unless I upload through FileZilla through my public and html directories. However, I am not sure where and how to save it first. I don't even know where or how to use notepad, which others keep mentioning in their posts on a discussion board. Can I save it in microsoft word, and, if so, what type of document should I save it as? CSS is not available there, at least not under that name.

I have been looking through some instructions from a website on external CSS stylesheets, but I am still not sure how to link them up. These instructions tell you how to include the information in the code of your html document - would that be the Thoreau document? And how do I find an external style sheet. I simply do not understand. I understand why an external style sheet is useful, because it can globally control format, but I don't understand where you find such sheets or how you would create them. I tried checking the code of some of my fellow students webpages, but I still don't understand what I am supposed to do.

I have a similar problem publishing webpages. I know how to do it in FileZilla, but when I create new webpages, I do not know how to do it in Kompozer - am I supposed to publish to a new site and fill out new information? When I try to do that, it reports that directory was not found, although it seems to say it is published. Nonetheless, I can't find it on the web. Although I understand the importance of public and html directories, I do not understand how to actually fill out the menus that Kompozer has. I end up wildly trying to different things.

Only recently have I figured out how to make a folder in Kompozer.

Sometimes I feel very foolish asking the questions I do. Really, I often find that nobody wants to answer them. It could be for a variety of reasons: 1) I post the questions really late, and nobody sees them; 2) My questions are not clear, so nobody understands what my problem is; 3) The information is available elsewhere in the course (although I might not realize it), and people figure I should know this. 4) I might give the impression that I have not even tried to find the solution before asking the question. This is seldom true - sometimes I have spent hours and hours trying to solve a problem, without any success. 5) People think I have not read elsewhere in the discussion board - I actually spend a lot of time reading the discussion board, but sometimes I do forget what I have read, even if I have copied it down. 6) Other students - especially those posting to the discussion boards - are just as confused as I am.

However, sometimes some fellow students have been very helpful.

For all the hours of time I have put into this course, I don't expect that I have accomplished all the goals that were set for us. However, I do get the impression there are some other students who have also had had difficulties. I am sorry to hear that, and I wish I could have been more help than I have been. However, at least, I realize that is not simply a personal problem.