HTML: HyperText Markup Language
The following is an outline of the labs and homework through which we
learned how to use basic HTML to create web documents.
Lab: HTML Introduction
- HTML tags: the commands in a text document that determine how the
formatting will appear when opened by a web brower.
- Some tags, such as the "head" and "body" function, explain the
function of a certain piece of text, therefore have more of a
semantic significance. (XML, which we discussed in our readings, allows for the creation of more
of these semantic tags.)
- Other tags affect how text will appear on the page; for example,
the "b" and "i" tags make text bold or italicized, respectively.
- The "a href="url"" command creates a hypertext link to another
webpage. (Hypertext and its capabilites to make text documents
non-linear is the key concept behind Ted Nelson's Xanadu project,
discussed in our readings.)
Lab: HTML Tables
- By creating tables in web pages, one can organize information
spreadsheet-style.
- Table commands can also organize whole sections of a webpage in
horizontal sections, instead of keeping pages confined to a vertical
layout.
Homework: Create a web page
- We created a text document, formatting text in different sizes, styles, and colors.
- On the page was also a link to an outside webpage.
- There was also an image included; in our case, a picture of a
building on the Swarthmore College campus.
Homework: Put web pages on the server (that's this very assignment
I'm writing right now!)
- We are assigned to make an outline of our course material thus
far, organized on web pages hyperlinked to each other.
- We will then put these web sites on a server, i.e. Swarthmore's
sccs server, where they can be accessed by the general public.
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