Lecture Notes - Tues Feb 11

• Questions?

• still more on HTML and web pages
  • Now that you've seen the basic idea of HTML markup and tags, it's just practice and getting comfortable with the documentation.
  • some new Tags
    • named anchor : <a name="chap1">Chapter 1</a>
    • link to anchor in current page : <a href="#chap1"> jump to Chapter 1</a>
    • link to anchor in another page: url#name
    • < hr >
    • < img src="url" width="122 or 50%" height="220 or 20%" border=n>
    • embedding IMG tags in links.
    • please browse the HTML 4.0 Elements" reference. and HTML 3.2 Reference. and
  • playing with images
    • downloading images (various kinds of clicking)
    • types of images: jpg, gif, png
    • getting image sizes
    • altering images - photoshop etc.
    • animated and transparent gifs
    • "alt" attribute
    • backgrounds
  • Design issues
    • Navigation: where can the user go from here?
    • layout: consistency
    • readability vs eye candy
    • relative links and portability of pages
    • logical markup (i.e. "strong") vs physical markup (i.e. "bold")
  • Examples
    • create some in class
• Assignment: still coming, but start here
  • please read chaps 4,5,6
  • Create make a page that has an image in it
  • Find at least two things that are the same in the HTML 3.2 and 4.0 recommendations, and at least two things that are different.
• Aside - XML eXtensible Markup Language
  • what it is - data organized by tag structure
  • becoming a common internet standard for a variety of purposes.
  • example - camels.xml