We talked about a lot of the concepts discussed in Chapter 1 of HFHTML. I walked through some of the parts of the chapter that I think are important and that you should make sure you understand. We did the matching exercise in class to cover a lot of the terms we'll be using all semester.
Terms
- attribute: provides a way to specify additional information about an element
- metacognition: thinking about thinking
- filename extension: for example, .html in index.html
- <head> element: provides information about a Web page
- opening tag: <h1>
- cascading style sheets: used to describe how content should be presented
- Web server: waits for requests for Web pages, images, sounds, movies, etc., and responds to such requests
- HTML: provides the content and structure of a Web page
- HTML comment: <!-- This needs some work! -->
- closing tag: </h1>
- element: opening tag + content + closing tag
- Web browser: requests HTML pages, retrieves them, and displays them
Homework
For Friday's class, add an image to the page you did for today and set the background color of your page. You can use the dull tan color in the book, or you can use one of the standard CSS color names: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, or yellow. (You'll learn later how to choose from millions of colors!) Put the image file in the same folder that your about.html file is in. Open your file about.html in your favorite browser. Make sure the image displays. Print the Web page from the browser. [This printout does not have to show the background color.] Then select View | View Page Source (or similar selection) from the browser menu and then print the HTML source for the Web page. Turn in the two printouts at the start of class on Friday.
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