Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lecture 3 - Making it pretty

In this lecture, we discussed attributes to the <body> tag that allow us to change the look and feel of the basic HTML page. We also broke down the <font> tag, discussed a few specialty tags like "center" and went over hexadecomal colors and some broad design concepts.
Here's the code we wrote in class:
lecture3_spr08.htm

Monday, January 21, 2008

Lecture 2 notes

Here are two files from the second HTML lecture.
WE covered unordered lists, various permutations of the anchor tag, absolute vs. relative paths and all the body tag attributes. We even built a mock FAQ page to demonstrate the concept of anchors. Here are the pages (these are html pages, so they'll load in a web browser. Click "view" -> "source" to see the source code, then sasve it to your computer.
lecture2.htm
lecture2_faq.htm

Lecture 1 notes

Here are the notes from lecture 1, covering the "big eight" tags, basic text formatting, headlines and lists. This is an HTML file, so when you click the link, the page will display in a new browser window. Just "view source," then save it to your computer.

lecture1_spr08.htm

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Welcome Spring 08 students

Here's the course syllabus in pdf format.
To download, right-mouse click the link, go to "save target as" and pick a place on your computer.
syllabus_spr08.pdf