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Hello there,
Finished marking up the letter assignment.
Eager for your feedback or any kind of suggestions on how to
improve the markup.
Sorry i could not send the html as an attachment as i am a newbie
to the community and not allowed to send an attachment…
Marking uo a letter body { max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; }
.receiver-column {
text-align: right;
}
h1 {
font-size: 1.5em;
}
h2 {
font-size: 1.3em;
}
p,ul,ol,dl,address {
font-size: 1.1em;
}
p, li, dd, dt, address {
line-height: 1.5;
}
Dr. Eleanor Gaye
Awesome Science faculty
University of Awesome
Bobtown, CA 99999,
USA
Tel: 123-456-7890
Email: no_reply@example.com
20 January 2016
Miss Eileen Dover
4321 Cliff Top Edge
Dover, CT9 XXX
UK
Re: Eileen Dover university application
Dear Eileen,
Thank you for your recent application to join us at the
University of Awesome’s science faculty to study as part of your
PhD next year. I will
answer your questions one by one, in the following sections.
Starting dates
We are happy to accomodate you starting your study with us at
any time, however it would suit us better if you could start at the
beginning of a semester; the start dates for each one are as
follows:
First semester: 9 September 2016
Second semester: 15 January 2017
Third semester: 2 May 2017
Please let me know if this is ok, and if so which start date you
would prefer.
You can find more information about important university dates on our
website.
Subjects of study
At the Awesome Science Faculty, we have a pretty open-minded
research facility — as long as the subjects fall somewhere in the
realm of science and technology. You seem like an intelligent,
dedicated researcher, and just the kind of person we'd like to have
on our team. Saying that, of the ideas you submitted we were most
intrigued by are as follows, in order of priority:
Turning H2O into wine, and the health benefits of
Resveratrol (C14H12O3.)
Measuring the effect on performance of funk bassplayers at
tempratures exceeding 30°C (86°F), when the audience size
exponentially increases (effect of 3 × 103 > 3 ×
104.)
HTML and
CSS constructs for
representing musical scores.
So please can you provide more information on each of these
subjects, including how long you'd expect the research to take,
required staff and other resources, and anything else you think
we'd need to know? Thanks.
Exotic dance moves
Yes, you are right! As part of my post-doctorate work, I did
study exotic tribal dances. To answer your
question, my favourite dances are as follows, with definitions:
Polynesian chicken dance
A little known but very influential dance dating back as far as
300 BC, a whole village would
dance around in a circle like chickens, to encourage their
livestock or be "fruitful".
Icelandic brownian shuffle
Before the Icelanders developed fire as a means of getting
warm, they used to practice this dance, which involved huddling
close together in a circle on the floor, and shuffling their bodies
around in imperceptably tiny, very rapid movements. One of my
fellow students used to say that he thought this dance
inspired modern styles such as Twerking.
Arctic robot dance
An interesting example of historic misinformation, English
explorers in the 1960s believed to have discovered a new dance
style characterised by "robotic", stilted movements, being
practiced by inhabitants of Northern Alaska and Canada. Later on
however it was discovered that they were just moving like this
because they were really cold.
For more of my research, see my exotic dance research
page.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Eleanor Gaye
University of Awesome motto: Be awesome to each other. -- Bill S
Preston, Esq
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When it says markup, the wording is sort of open to any kind of
interpretation imo.
In many cases, yes — there are often multiple ways to solve a
markup problem, some slightly better than others. Usually you
can’t go that far wrong (e.g. using a section, div or article for
an individual piece of writing on a page would probably be OK;
using a button element wouldn’t be!)
I agree the wording for article and section are a bit ambiguous,
but why cant that letter be represented by an article tag? It is it
not independent content?
It is, yes, and you wouldn’t be wrong if you did wrap it in an
article. However, I chose to not bother including a separate
wrapper element, as it is the only thing on the page, so doesn’t
really need further separation.
lastly, for section tag. If what I am wrapping is an independent
section unrelated to the main site (like a set of outbound links),
it would use a div tag(s). Is the definition suggesting that the
section tag only be used to represent (any) section related to the
website? (or document)
I’d say a section would still be fine for such a use. It would
be a separate group of functionality on the page. If the links were
external but related to the content of the page (e.g. further
reading links), then an aside element would be appropriate.
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