Lesson 1

What Neil was talking about:
• What is the FabAcademy
• The GUI of Jabber Video
• Modelling softwares
• What is digital fabrication
• What are the homework (this website).

Software I used:
• Jabber Video (Video-Conferencing)
• Polycom RealPresence (Video-Conferencing)
• Notepad++ (HTML programming)
• Mercurial (Version Contol)
• TightVNC (Remote Desktop)
• WordPress (Blogging)
• TextWrengler (HTML editing for Mac)
• Google Web Designer (HTML WYSIWYG Editor for ads)

Introduction to HTML (in 1 minute!)
• HTML = Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is a programming language for creating web-pages
• HTML is built with tags. Each tag starts with < and ends with >. There are start tags (<>) and end tags (</>).
• For starting HTML document, type in your favourite text-editor (recommended: Notepad++ for windows, TextWrengler for Mac and GEdit for Linux):
Some popular HTML tags:
• <p> - paragraph tag, for writing text in paragraphs
• <title> - title tag for the webpage
• <ul> - tag for starting (end ending) a l ist
• <li> - listed item tag
• <h1> - <h6> - header tag, h1 is the biggest and h5 is the smallest
• <image src="example.png"> - image tag for adding an image for your website (obviusly, change the example.png into your image file name)
• <a href="http://www.google.com"> - link tag for linking text with a hyperlink/ a file (obviusly, change the http://www.google.com into your desired domian or filename)
• <font color="FFF123"> - font tag for changing the font, the color and the size of a selected word (obviusly, change the FFF123 into any hex-formatted color. you can use ColorPicker for picking your desired color in hex-format)


Homework: this website.
How I made the site:
1. I downloaded the site template from htmltemplates.net
2. I downloaded the program "Notepad++"
3. I changed the code:
4. I took the photos and uploaded them to the website
5. I took the screenshots and uploaded them to the website
6. I uploaded the site into the servers with those mercurial commands:

hg pull
(if updated some times hg update needed)
hg add
hg status
hg commit -m "jonathano"
hg push

7. My site is up and running now!