thank you to all who replied with wonderful advice!
The presentation I created[1] was recieved with much love and appreciation. The questions that the students asked were along the lines of:
1. "What do you mean when you say that IE breaks the code?"
--> you know the answer to that one ;)
2. "What are the top browsers I should test on?"
--> the biggies on Mac and PC: IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, MacSafari (if possible Linux Konqueror)
3. "What are the steps I need to take to get webspace/domain name?"
--> buy domain name; buy webspace; learn FTP; voila
4. "What's bandwidth?"
--> every time your webpage is visited it's downloaded; monthly limit based on your host
5. "Do I have to pay to get X search engine to crawl my site?"
--> no, it's free; pay if you want top, highlighted results or to be placed as ads
6. "How can my website make money for me?"
--> ads; sell your artwork (big discussion on shopping carts vs. PayPal)
It was so exciting to talk ab/t web standards and all that I'm passionate about. It felt great to explain why learning to code by hand is highly important before jumping into Dreamweaver (I explained that Dreamweaver has so many features and widgets that if you don't know what the code means, you won't know what it's doing, why it did A or B, etc. etc). I touched on other important topics like: SEO, Accessibility and explained that these are tools that you need to be introduced to so once your familiar with HTML and CSS what the next steps are to take. I also explained the difference between stealing code and learning from and changing code.
I'm so glad I got to do this and hope that everyone can do this at least once! Thanks again for the advice and support!
caio, Zulema
ps: butterflies in my stomach means that my tummy gets grumbly as if I'm hungry but it's from being nervous; it's a common saying in the States. As far as it being an in-code joke? No, at least i don't think so :-p
[1] Intro to web design : http://zoblue.com/web-design/
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