Webpage 1.2

As i mentioned in the past, i was learning HTML and CSS3 to be able to write code for my own website and partially to see how hard it is to learn coding in HTML. And it's been an awesome experience! 

 I've put in hardly 15 Hrs into the whole thing and i now have a fairly good-looking webpage v1.2, a fairly good looking update from v1.1 of the page which doesnt have the CSS3 styling hints to it. Though i havent mastered the language yet, i am getting good at it. who knows, maybe one day i might want to be a Web-Ops co-ordinator for my college's technical festival. 

 but right now, the only thing on my mind is to get a place on my department's or my college's server to host this webpage on it. as i've mentioned, linking a webpage about yourselves would be an easier way to contact profs than writing huge mails and resumes. 

 There's one other thing that i dont understand. 
There are a lot of web operations coordinators who are free for the whole of the year after shaastra/saarang are over. and there are a lot of professors who dont have websites of their own! so, i dont understand why there isnt any co-ordination over here to help the professors out by taking their information and setting up their own individual websites. the professors wont even have to handle the website if they think that it's a hassle because the student can take care of it as long as he can (though, as i just learnt, it will take you hardly 10 hrs of coding to understand HTML and you will be able to edit/add information on a given webpage afterwards). I really wish this happens because a prof's website is the easiest way to look at his publication and his areas of research, which would otherwise be hard to find. 

 im quite bored today so you guys can expect an article tomorrow as well, the follow up to the one on telescopes i've wrote earlier. 

 Adios ...

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