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Introduction to Web Authoring. Session 2. www.msu.edu/~hartdav2/wa.html. Bill Hart-Davidson hartdav2@msu.edu AIM: billhd30. Questions? Discuss the first project: Web Genre Analysis & Parody HTML basics. Today in Class…. Choosing a Genre to Analyze. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Introduction toWeb Authoring
Bill Hart-Davidson
hartdav2@msu.edu
AIM: billhd30
Session 2
www.msu.edu/~hartdav2/wa.html
Today in Class…
• Questions?• Discuss the first
project: Web Genre Analysis & Parody
• HTML basics
Choosing a Genre to Analyze
• Pick one that will be important to you in your career. Either one you will you use a lot or one you will be involved in creating.
• Past choices: online catalogue; automobile marketing site; news portal; gaming fan site; corporate intranent; e-learning site.
Project 1: Genre Analysis & Parody/Tribute
http://www.msu.edu/~hartdav2/wa/ga.html
For Next Time…
1. Play around with your project page and/or the simple pages
2. Choose a site to analyze for project 13. Start working with the Genre Analysis
questions, modifying them as needed to suit your project
Today’s Exercise
Add the following to your project page:
1. An image
2. A link that works (e.g. to our class page)
Also, change the text so that it is appropriate for you - adding your name, etc.
HTML Reference
The following pages provide an overview of the basic html tags.
Copy & Paste these into your html file, save the file, then view the file in a browser to see what they do.
HTML Document Basic Structure
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<!– Page title and hidden info </HEAD>
<BODY>
<!– Browseable, visible text </BODY>
</HTML>
Note: Any plain text file with this basic structure will do …name it with a .html extension and open it in any web browser
Header Tags
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Should match Web page heading
</TITLE>
<META>
</HEAD>
Body Tags 1: How does the whole page look?
<BODYBGCOLOR=“#FFFFFF”
BACKGROUND=“background.gif”
LINK=“#CC3333”
ALINK=“#CCFFFF”
VLINK=“#C0C0C0”
TEXT=“#000000”>
Body Tags 2: Six levels of headings
Headings
<H1>Largest heading</H1>
<H2> </H2>
<H3> </H3>
<H4> </H4>
<H5> </H5>
<H6>Smallest heading</H6>
Body Tags 3: Basic “block” level tag, the paragraph
Paragraphs
<P> </P>
<P>This is a short example of a
paragraph</P>
A simple text-only menu bar<p>
<hr noshade size="1"><br>
Teams [
<a href="#team1">1</a> |
<a href="#team2">2</a> |
<a href="#team3">3</a> |
]
<br><br>
</p>
Body Tags 4: Lists, with numbers and with bullets
Lists Unordered<UL><LI>Apples</LI>
<LI>Oranges</LI></UL>
Ordered<OL><LI>Priority 1</LI><LI>Priority 2</LI></OL>
Body Tags 5: Other listsLists (continued)
Definition
<DL>
<DT>HTML</DT><DD>A tag language</DD>
</DL>
Example: Def. List for a team project, 1
<dl>
<dt><b><a name="team1">Team 1 -
<a href="">Buy_It.com</a></b></dt>
<br><br>
<dd>Here's a description of this Web site.
<p><b>Team members</b>
<br>
Example: Def. List for each team project, 2
Here are the names of the people involved.</p>
<p><b>Send us your comments</b>
<br>
Here's how to contact us.
<p><hr noshade size="1"></p>
</dd>
Body Tags 6: White Space!
Breaks
<BR>
<BR CLEAR=“left | right | all“>
Body Tags 7: Horizontal lines for dividing a page
Horizontal Rules
<HR>
<HR NOSHADE SIZE=“1“>
Body Tags 8: Inserting an inline image file
Graphics
<IMG SRC=“my.gif“
ALT=“My picture”
HEIGHT=“24“
WIDTH=“32“
ALIGN=“left | right | center“
HSPACE=“6”
VSPACE=“6”>
The SRC is the “source” of the image. The URL of the source tells the browser where to find the image. In this example, the image is stored in the same directory as the page it is sitting on.
Body Tags 9: Links, External & Internal
Anchors (Links) Within a Page
“From” Link
<A HREF=“#Section 1”>Go to Section 1</A>
“To” Link
<A NAME=“Section 1”>Section 1</A>
Body Tags 10: Links, absolute and relative
Anchors (Links) to Another PageAbsolute
<A HREF=“http://www.rpi.edu/ ~hartdw/”>Bill’s page</A>
Relative
<A HREF=“wwww4.html”>Writing to the World Wide Web, section 4</A>
Body Tags 12: The mailto link
Mailto Anchors
<A HREF=“mailto:hartdw@rpi.edu”>
Bill’s e-mail</A>
Body Tags 13: The old way to do page layout, tables!
<TABLE><CAPTION>Simple table</CAPTION>
<TR><TH>Column heading</TH></TR><TR>
<TD>Column data</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
TR = table row
TD = table cell
..actually, TD stands for “table data,” but you can have a cell with no data in it…
Body Tags 14: Table attributes
<TABLE
BORDER=“1”
CELLPADDING=“4”
CELLSPACING=“0”
WIDTH=“450”>
Body Tags 15: A table row
<TR
BGCOLOR=“#C0C0C0”
ALIGN=“left | right | center”
VALIGN=“top | bottom | center”>
Body Tags 16: A table cell
<TD
BGCOLOR=“#C0C0C0”
ALIGN=“left | right | center”
VALIGN=“top | bottom | center”
COLSPAN=“2”
ROWSPAN=“2”>
Body Tags 17: Styles you can apply to text
Text: We can specify
• Bold text
• Italics
• Font size
• Font face
• Font color
Body Tags 18: Style tags (override style sheets)
• <B>Bold text</B>
• <I>Italicized text</I>
• <FONT SIZE=“3”FACE=“ARIAL”
COLOR=“blue”>
Blue Arial text (normal/default size)
</FONT>
Body Tags 19: some codes for special characters
• Special Characters< <> >&&" “&#reg;registered trademark™ trademark non-breaking space (eg. blank
table cell)
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