HTML: HyperText Markup Language

• 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.