About the University of Books website
Who created this website?
Why did I create this website?
- I wanted to get better at 'modern yet cross-browser' CSS.
- I thought it would be nice to help other people learn CSS better too.
- I wanted to build upon my favorite book on CSS fundamentals.
- There are a lot of very expensive educational institutions, products, and services out there, some of which often turn out in the long run to have cost a lot more than they were worth. I'm in favor of providing useful alternatives, to constructively supplement the more ethical colleges and universities. I do not think that this one website solves all the educational problems of the world. :-)
How did I create this website?
I used CSS, of course. :-)
But wait, isn't there programming?
I programmed the back-end code in portable Python using the Python standard library, on top of which I constructed some elements of a microframework for interactive websites. I did this to get a combination of two desired qualities: 1) flexibility in where and how this site can be hosted 2) the ability to code up and maintain back-end interactivity without too much trouble.
Data is stored in json and some simple custom data formats.
In a quiz I just took, punctuation marks are in the wrong place relative to single or double quotation marks!
Two conflicting standards exist for placing punctuation marks with quotation marks.
- "American standard"
- Places punctuation marks of the enclosing sentence inside a quote instead of after.
Type in the CSS style "a {text-decoration: none; }."
- "logical punctuation", also called "British style"
- Places punctuation marks of the enclosing sentence outside a quote unless they are logically a part of the quote.
Type in the CSS style "a {text-decoration: none; }".
He asked, "Who goes there?"