Experimenting with HTML
Hopefully this post in which I am supposed experimenting with writing HTML will turning out how it is supposed to because I have never written anything in HTML before and thus I am not sure I am doing this right!
Did you know that if you have a Mac (and maybe this is true for other types of computers as well but I am not sure) you can make your computer read documents, books, text, etc. for you? I didn’t until last night when I was telling my roommate how the I had to read chapter two of Digital History for class on Monday. As I was not very enthusiastic about reading such a long amount online she told me to try listening to the computer read it to me and see if that made it any easier or faster. Thus after playing around with the settings we got it to work and it was kind of cool and did help me concentrate more.
Here’s how we got it work:
- Go to System Preferences
- Click on Speech
- Click on Text Speech
- Check box which says Speak selected text when the key is pressed
- Click Set key and proceed to set the key command you which to use when wanting to tell the computer to read a portion of text to you that you have selected
Now all you have to do is go to the document or text you want read to you, select it, and press the key command which you decided on and then listen.
Things I found tricky about HTML:
- Not all the code abbreviations had the same terms I would have used to designated commands I was trying to execute
- I found out to writing HTML in WordPress i had to use the text needed to use the text tab when writing my post
- linking data and working with images in HTML is much more complicated than I thought it would be
Here’s an image about Creative Commons (I even used CC to find it):
