Introduction to Web Authoring Ellen Cushman / Class mtg. #2.

Introduction toWeb Authoring

Ellen [email protected]

www.msu.edu/~cushmane/wra210.htm

Class mtg. #2

Today in Class…Filling in the template: Personal Page Workshop--

add content to areas. • Go to and download this page, open

Dreamweaver and view this as code only:www.msu.edu/~cushmane/perspagetmp.html• HTML basics: What did you learn about how the

code works? Why doesn’t it work? Why are 99% of all pages outdated that use html?

• Trinity of Web Standards

For Next Time… 1/14

1. Play around with your project page and/or the simple pages. Save your files and be ready to load these.

2. Read Zeldman’s chapters 1 & 2.3. Look up and read about new vocab:

xhtml and CSS, forward and backward compatibility, integrity and portability, accessibility.

Today’s ExerciseDo the following to the project page template: 1. Add an image2. Add a link that works (e.g. to our class

page)3. Change the text so that it is appropriate for

you - adding your name, etc.4. Try updating your page from home via FTP

too5. Let’s collect our insights into working with this

What we’re learning re: html

Html and the trinity of web authoring standards

• The trinity of web standards: structure, presentation, behaviors. – Structure: text data formatted according to

its semantic meaning: headline, secondary headline, paragraph, etc.

– Presentation: control the page format, typogrpahy, placement, etc

– Behaviors: what it does (links, cues movies, controls content added)

HTML Reference

The following pages provide an overview of the basic html tags.

Copy & Paste any 3 or 4 of these into your html file, save the file, then view the file in a browser to see what they do.

What do we notice about how html works? What are its strengths & limits? Connect this to the trinity.

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 aparagraph</P>

A simple text-only menu bar<p>

<hr noshade size="1"><br>

Teams [

<a href="#team1">1</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:[email protected]”>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

<TABLEBORDER=“1”CELLPADDING=“4”CELLSPACING=“0”WIDTH=“450”>

Body Tags 15: A table row

<TRBGCOLOR=“#C0C0C0”ALIGN=“left | right | center”VALIGN=“top | bottom | center”>

Body Tags 16: A table cell

<TDBGCOLOR=“#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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