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:

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:

  1. Centering text/images
  2. Changing text size and changing text style (for example, bold or underlined text)
  3. Hyperlinks (to send you successfully to another web page)
  4. Lists (ordered or unordered, either example is fine)
  5. Line breaks and paragraph breaks
  6. Title and a meta tag (name="content") in the header section
  7. Inclusion of an image
  8. Use of a table
  9. 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%).

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:

Is this a good lab assignment?
Yes
Definitely

What would make this lab assignment better?
Author of best page gets a free car
Require web page be written in Latin
Learn to make web animations

How many mathematicians does it take to unscrew a lightbulb?

Any other thoughts?