WRT235: Writing in Electronic Environments Session 2 Basic XHTML

Course Websites   sakai.uri.edu

Recap  HTML is a way to markup a text so that a browser can interpret it  HTML is one of 3 main components of how the modern web works (CSS and Javascript being the other 2)  You need servers and server space to deliver your web content

Getting Started  Download the wrt235_stub.html zip from our course site  Extract the html file from the zip and store it on your Desktop  Open the file with your text editor  Notepad for Windows  TextEdit or TextWrangler for Mac  File > Open > Select File

1. Edit  In the section of the HTML file, change the section to something appropriate to the class.  e.g., Your Name, Course Title  Save the file in your text editor  Open Chrome  In Chrome, File > Open > Your File  Make note of how the browser interprets your markup

2. Edit main page title  Titling HTML pages involves using header tags.  These tags range from (largest) to (smallest)  Give your page an appropriate main title using one of the tags.

3. Add a footer  Notice the and tags at the end of the document  The close and tags will normally enclose all your content  Let’s add a footer for this document so that the reader can see where it ends upon scroll  Before the tag, add the following: 

4. Add a list  Somewhere between the tags, add the following:   Toyota  Ford  BMW   This is a list.  The tag denotes that the list is unordered  The tags denotes the list items

5. Add a link  Below your list add the following:  University of Rhode Island  Save. Refresh. Click the link.  What happens?  Nothing should happen because the link doesn’t point to anything but the current page.  Revise the link to read:  University of Rhode Island “