short paper due

Please submit your paper in class in hard copy form, and to TurnItIn.com my inbox in MyCourses electronically. (I’ll submit it to TurnItIn.com myself.)

Basic HTML

This is where we’ll start talking about HTML, the underlying markup language used to create web pages. Even if you’ve written HTML pages before, you’ll need to pay attention to the lecture and the readings—our goal is to get you writing clean, standards-compliant HTML code, which most people don’t start out with.

The text editor that we use in class, BBEdit, has good built-in tools for HTML markup and validation. If you use the PCs in our labs, the text editor installed on those computers is UltraEdit; as far as I know, it does not have HTML validation tools built into it.

Regardless of what you use to create your code, you should always run your HTML pages through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Validator before submitting them for grading.

Readings for Basic HTML

For today’s class, please read the Introduction, and Chapters 1-4, 6 and 7 of HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS.

Please make sure that you have the student version of the fifth edition, as we’ll be using the review questions and exercises in the book during class.