Well, after getting feedback on Part 1 of the crash course I realized a few things which sent me back to the drawing board to make some changes to my plan for the course.
First to tackle, a better break down of the assignments for those who are really in the dark on the web and HTML. So below is a new assignment if you couldn’t follow assignment 1.
Assignment 1.5:
- Download Source Files
- Open cc1-5-start.htm in a text editor and format the page as noted in the document
- Search the internet and find three new tags to use
- Check your code against cc1-5-finish.htm & Test in a browser
Assignment 1.5 Breakdown:
1) Download Source files
In the last assignment the goal was to create an HTML page named “index.htm”. You can use a editing program like Notepad or TextEdit to create a text document. And if you save the document with a “.htm” or “.html” it will be rendered as HTML in a browser.
For our purposes you can download Download Source 1.5 Files and use cc1-5-start.htm.
2) Format the page as noted in the document
If you download the zip file you will find cc1-5-start.htm which contains the text content to be formatted. And a file cc1-5-finish.htm that contains the finished document.
You can open the HTML documents in a text editing program such as Notepad or TextEdit.
Note, the start document has pieces of text wrapped in <p> paragraph tags. Look to the cc1-5-finish.htm to see how different things are handled and be sure to understand how they work.
3) Search the internet and find three new tags to use
After reading the first post you should know what HTML tags are. Here we want to use a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, to find new HTML tags that weren’t mentioned in the first post. For example, I did a quick search and after looking at a few sites I found the “small” tag.
<small>Small Tags makes text small</small> = Small Tags makes text small
4) Test your document by opening it in a browser
Open a browser such as Firefox or Safari and click “File > Open” or Open File (depending on the browser), find the document you want to preview in the browser and click open. This should open the document in the browser and render it as HTML.
Moving forward I aim to make the assignments more thorough with source files to follow. Feel free to provide feedback on this post and let me know if there are any things that still need addressing.
