#basic principles

What’s the Difference between HTML vs CSS?

Building a website mainly comprises knowledge of HTML and CSS. However, setting the difference between one and the other is necessary to start in the world of web development.

HTML is a markup language for describing web documents (web pages).” – w3schools

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web with HTML as its publishing language. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) was created to help programmers describe the content on a website like <this is a heading>, <this is a paragraph>. HTML uses tags to help you add paragraphs, headers, pictures, bullets and other pieces of structure. Just like you would write something on a word document, HTML helps you write something on a website. (Wiki, w3schools)

Simply put, HTML is used to create the actual content of the page, such as written text.

CSS describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media.” – w3schools

CSS was first proposed by Hakom Lie and co-created by Bert Bos around 1996. Created to compliment HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is what makes a website look and feel amazing. Presentation and ease of use have been some of the qualities CSS has brought to web development. It is more involved with changing a websites style rather than its content. Kind of like changing the font size, font color and positioning on a word document. CSS is in charge of the way the content looks on a page and what else goes on it to compliment that content.  (Wiki, w3schools)

CSS (Cascade Styling Sheets) is responsible for the design or style of the website, including design, visual effects and background color.

After understanding the difference between one and the other, it's time to put the codes into practice and boot up with a good visual idea and powerful content.

Distilling the core tenets to align more to my own personal values. Been exploring Julia Cameron’s “The Artist’s Way” twelve week course for the past few weeks and took the time to turn my attention to the ‘basic principles’ as one of my ‘morning pages’ activities: “CREATIVITY IS NATURAL AND GIVES ENERGY TO LIFE.UNLEASH AND EMBODY IT TO CELEBRATE YOUR OWN EXISTENCE.GIFT BACK TO THE WORLD YOUR…

Consent is vitally important to RPGs (especially horror RPGs), yet is often taken for granted. Often, consent’s building blocks—trust, plus shared social expectations, desires, and goals—are only analyzed after something has gone wrong and the illusion of agreement is broken. I don’t think anyone needs to constantly check for consent at every new moment in their games, but you can save yourself…

My daughter, when I tell her that I believe in God.

Now. She didn't expect a response. She is a feminist after all, and I am a Patriarchal male. A response wasn't even worth considering, let alone entertaining - no, scratch that - let alone even allowing to be aired.

Nevertheless what would I have said over a quiet table, or in a parlor where ideas were judged on their merit, and not upon the gender and emotional baggage of the participants?

That I don't know.

I mean, that I don't know, as in I don't have knowledge of God.

I have faith.

I have faith in a God that I have wrestled with and found to be GOOD. Good, as in a "Good God, that loves mankind". The same God that is proclaimed in most, if not every, Orthodox Vespers. I haven't attended many Liturgies - apostate as I am - so I couldn't speak to them.

But the God I worship isn't a simple God. He's not easy to anger, but that doesn't mean he can't be angered. He doesn't have the Pharisaical list of absolute rights and wrongs the Protestant God of Penal substitution has. Most importantly, his rules don't conflict with one another - pitting one group who follows one set of rules against another group who follows another set.

Do Protestants each worship the God of their desire, or are they merely distortions of the one...

I don't care.

Their god, or gods, are confusing, contradictory, at cross purposes to one another. They are angry or don't care, depending upon who you talk to. The whole matter is tedious.

My God is merely Good. Just Good. And he invites me to participate in his goodness. Do I need Orthodox praxis to participate in his goodness?

Some would say, "yes".

Yet, after a life of licentiousness, followed by years of repentance - outside of liturgy and confession, outside of ceremonial fasting, away from icons, St Mary of Egypt was recognized as a Saint.

This is not the normal path to acquiring the mind of Christ. There is a reason the Church offers the medicine it does. But to the Protestants out there, it is medicine. It is offered to help us participate with, and appreciate, the God we worship - to acquire his mind - it is not a "works based" righteousness.

So, back to my daughter.

Christianity is not about morality. If it were, the Stoics would be considered Christian, and they are not. It's about God. And the Icon of God, on Earth, was Christ.

Take what you will from this.

To understand Christ is to understand God, and to understand God is to understand Christ. It's not too complicated. God isn't looking for my damnation, he doesn't care about prescribed sets of rules. He Gave us the Spirit - the fruits thereof are what he wants from us. He wants us to acquire the mind of the Spirit - His Spirit.

At the end of the day - I don't worry about my "Salvation" anymore. I don't even care. I do not even think about it.

For he is a Good God, and he loves mankind.

Protestants use the, "Are you saved?" question for outreach. Everyone asking the question convincing themselves that if they answer, "yes", that this magical thinking will guarantee "Salvation".

Yet, their Salvations are as muddled as their gods, or as their distortion of the one true God.

Yes, Salvation is faith - as is mentioned in my 5th paragraph. Faith in the good God that I see dimly. Faith in the good God whose Christ came to this earth; and faith in the good God whose Spirit was promised, and with whose help I'm acquiring the ability - day-by-day - to see more clearly.

Seeing him with absolute clarity, however, I believe will take time.

But I think I'm on the path I need to be on.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy upon me, A Sinner.

Basic Principles of Byzantine Strategy

Basic Principles Byzantine emperor Leo had defined strategy as utilization of theory and practice in adjusting to realities of warfare. Byzantine concept of strategy encompasses all aspects of warfare – everything that is today covered under strategy, operations, tactics, logistics and geography. Byzantines did not compartmentalize the skillset, as is done today. Byzantine emperors were, as a…

When is Web Marketing Worthwhile?

A practical truth

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