February 22, 2008

Assignment

• Due: complete it in class today OR finish at home BEFORE next class.
• Finish in class: show me the web page before you leave.
• Finish at home: copy the files onto a USB flash drive to transfer to your computer at home, and then bring them back next class.
• EXTRA CREDIT: I will give extra credit to anybody who emails the web site to me (NOTE: you will need to ZIP the files first before sending them).
  

I would like to see the following items in your country web site:

• Title in the tab (i.e. use the "title" tag.
• Title at the top of the web page. This should be CENTERED.
  
• At least one image related to your country.
• At least 3 paragraphs of text (they can be short).
• Use the Bold/Italic/Underline tags, and also the Font tag to highlight important words.
  

February 8, 2008

Today we will begin to learn about basic web design.

Basic rules of HTML:

1. File names should be lower case with no spaces or special characters (only - or _ allowed)
2. HTML code itself can be in any case
3. Tags: Tags are command that let you control the appearance of your page. They are enclosed in special brackets, like this: <> Tags always have a begin tag and an end tag: the end tag has a backslash in it.
4. The code for every web page has two parts:
1. Head: this is the part that controls the formatting of the page
2. Body: everything in this section shows up on the web page.

Helpful HTML Links: Go to Hillcrest Links and click on Web Design on the left.

Click here to download Mr. Calkins' helpful HTML cheat sheet!

Project: We are going to begin a new class project today - creating an online atlas. Each student needs to choose one country to research; you will then start building a web page about that country with images, maps, text, etc.

February 1, 2008

Today in class we will talk more about what the Internet is and how it works.

Assignment: think of a country that you would like to research. It could be a country that is interesting to you, or that you know from traveling or from relatives. Next week you will begin to create a web page about this country.