How to Keep Your Mailbox Spam-free: Be Careful Where You Submit Your Email Address
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Miscellaneous
As you know, as residents of the World Wide Web we are constantly asked to reveal our email addresses when submitting registration forms, downloading digital products, signing up for newsletters, etc. Email is an effective way to transmit information, but when the bad guys find your address, your mailbox is in danger of becoming a source of enduring stress and headaches. That’s what happened to my old email address.
“…true education means mind development; not merely the gathering and classifying of knowledge.” ~ Napoleon Hill
Compulsory education does many things well, but it fails to genuinely communicate the most important lesson to young students—that education is not the memorizing of dates and formulae, but the development of the mind.
Anyone with a healthy brain can cram data into his or her organic repositories. It just takes time and effort to memorize information. But if we look at memorized information, it’s actually not that much different from having reference books on the bookshelf (or your iPhone). It’s considerably faster to search for the quadratic formula in your brain than it is to find the correct page in your high school math book, but unless you want to become an expert at math, it could be wiser to know where to retrieve that piece of information.
A few days ago, I wrote a post about how tutorials are an effective way to learn technical skills. Today I’m going to be sharing a collection of hand-picked beginner’s web design tutorials that I’ve personally found useful.
1. HTML Beginner Tutorial
HTML
If you want to learn how to create websites, this is where you should start. HTML Beginner Tutorial starts from the basics. In fact, it even shows you how to print a row of crude text without any tags or decorative attributes.
2. CSS Beginner Tutorial
CSS
CSS lets you decorate your website with cosmetic attributes. If HTML represents the skeleton of your website, CSS is the flesh (and a bit of makeup too).
Self-Learner is a blog about self-education and self-improvement based lifestyle design. Goal? To become the best "version" of yourself, and feel excited to jump out of your bed every morning.