Thursday, January 5, 2012

My First Website - Learn HTML, CSS and PHP

By Janet Lewison


Nearly every student who applies to college or career school also applies for financial aid. With grants, loans, and scholarships available from federal, state, institutional, and private sources, students have good reason to explore their financial aid options. When you apply for financial aid, you'll encounter two applications: the FAFSA and the CSS College Profile. Here's what they are and how they differ from each other.

CSS helps in decreasing the size of the whole code by encapsulating within groups while helps websites to load quicker than they usually do. CSS gives better flexibility and features than HTML too also in terms of design and the overall impact. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends both languages for web development.

Schools use your CSS Profile application information to determine how much nonfederal financial aid you are eligible to receive. Nonfederal financial aid includes institutional grants and scholarships, which are subsidies that the college gives you to help you lower your cost of attending college. You fill out your CSS Profile online. There is an initial fee of $25 that includes sending your application to one school, plus a fee of $16 for every additional school or college that you want your information sent to.

Which Colleges Use the CSS Profile? The information collected on the CSS Profile is used by almost 600 colleges, universities, graduate schools, and professional schools to determine eligibility for nonfederal student aid funds. Many private colleges, which have institutional financial aid funds, will ask students to complete both the FAFSA and the CSS Profile applications. Many career colleges and public universities do not have institutional funds to distribute, and these schools may not require the CSS Profile. When you apply to a college or career school, inquire at your school's admissions office or financial aid office.

The first step should be to read some tutorials or introductory texts about HTML and CSS. This is the first level of web programming. The next step is probably JavaScript and PHP. You only need to know what these languages do, what is the basic syntax and how these languages work together to create web pages.

What's the Difference Between the Applications? The FAFSA and the CSS profile use two different systems to calculate your expected family contribution (EFC), which is the amount of money a school will expect you or your family to contribute, and how much the school will award in grants and scholarships. FAFSA asks for a different set of financial information than the CSS Profile. For example, FAFSA ignores assets of siblings, all assets of certain families with less than $50,000 of income, and both home and family farm equity. The CSS Profile collects information on estimated academic year family income, medical expenses, elementary and secondary school tuition, and unusual circumstances. The CSS Profile is generally due earlier in the year than the FAFSA. Individual colleges set their own due dates, and you should plan ahead. Go to the College Board website, review the list of colleges that interest you, and get the due dates for the one(s) you want.

Small changes will later evolve into bigger changes and you will be able to modify a basic template according to your needs and wishes. Once you figure out how things work it will be very easy to find out which files, where and how need to be modified in order to make desired changes. It is amazing what you can do if you know only basic syntax of HTML, CSS and PHP. Knowing web technologies will help you to understand how the web works and how you can take advantage of it.




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