Lab 1
Due October 21, 2013
For your first lab assignment, you are to write a web page
describing a subject of interest to you. Examples of such subjects
include:
- Baseball
- Gardening
- Guitars
- The Simpsons
Think along the lines of a
scaled-down Wikipedia
entry. I recommend writing several paragraphs. For example, to discuss
guitars, you can write a paragraph on the history of the instrument
since its invention, provide a list of types of guitars (together with
some example pictures), and include a paragraph discussing how modern
musicians incorporate the guitar, together with links to band web
sites. The web page should fill at least one to two pages if it were
printed out, but can be longer if you wish. What you write about does
not matter so much — in fact, you can make up "facts"
if you want (though tell me you are making things up, just so I know).
The key purpose of the assignment is that you illustrate your
ability to use the following elements of HTML:
- Centering text/images
- Changing text size and changing text style (for example, bold or underlined text)
- Hyperlinks (to send you successfully to another web page)
- Lists (ordered or unordered, either example is fine)
- Line breaks and paragraph breaks
- Title and a meta tag (name="content") in the header section
- Inclusion of an image
- Use of a table
- Form elements — Form section not due on October 21
- Text box
- Radio button
- Check box
- Drop-down list
- Submit button
Note, I have removed forms from the initial web assignment. The HTML elements listed in 1 through 8 (centering through tables) still are due October 21. Forms will be due at a date to be announced later.
| I encourage you to try to incorporate these elements coherently
together into your web site, though I admit that can be challenging. I
will grade largely (95%) based on correct use of all the above HTML
elements. 5% of the grade will be based on good style: basically, did
you try to make the page look presentable (full credit for that 5%) or
did you just throw everything together at the last minute with no
unifying theme (no credit for that 5%). |
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Revised submission instructions: To hand
in this assignment, either e-mail me the HTML and pictures for your
web page or e-mail me the address to your web page. My e-mail
is: 
Example of how you might use a form in your page: