Thursday, January 25, 2018

Basic HTML Assignment: Mini Website

Hello Students!
Your Basic HTML Assignment is to create a simple 4 page website that is about anything you like, favorite band, food, movie, actor or actress, etc. You will create a menu for navigation on a home page, and 3 other pages. These can be About, Contact and Sites of Interest. You could also have page titles, pictures or examples of your subject matter. Each page should have a menu for navigation plus content such as text or pictures. Each page should have an image or photo and text, links, lists etc. A full page is not necessary, the focus here is creating navigation, links and using color and embedding images.


Subject Matter: You can make your website about anything you like. You can make it about yourself, a favorite band, tv show, movie, food, car, place etc. The idea is to introduce me, the reader, to your interests. If you already have an idea for your site ask me and we can think about how to structure your website.

For help: Google it or ask your neighbor before asking your instructor. Below are notes about the tags we discussed in class as well as extra's. Or check out the barebones HTML guide on the link list on the side of this blog.

REQUIREMENTS:
• You must code this project in HTML from scratch.
• You must insert the proper HTML tags, Use appropriate headings to structure each of  your pages.
• Each page must contain a simple menu at the top for navigation, and a signature at the bottom to end the page such as your name, a quote or something else unique.
• Must have a total of  4 pages, more is allowed for extra credit. Page titles can be "Home, About, Contact, Favorite Websites, etc.."
• Include 1 image or photo on each page.
• Include at least 2 lists (ordered or unordered)
• Include at least 3 links to external websites (for instance the class blog etc...).
• You must include your email address either on your contact page or in your menu.
• Each page must have a background image or color
• Your home page must be titled "index.html" and be organized in a folder with all other html files and images.
• Make sure all pages have the .htm or .html extension and all images or photos are formatted for web correctly (jpg, gif, png) and reside in the same folder as the html files.


HTML NOTES:

Tags are used to format your text, text can be a link, a list, a paragraph, big, small, red, blue etc. In html tags are made like this:
<></>

You must always begin and end your tag, tags effect everything in between them. If you forget to end a tag it will effect everything after it. So to make some text look bold I would write my HTML like this:

Here is some <strong>bold</strong> text

And it would be rendered like this:

Here is some bold text


Remember that your document must be formatted, it has an html tag, plus a head and a body. Most of the content your site goes in the body. It basically looks like this:
<html>
      <head>
      </head>
             <body>
             </body>
</html>

You can also make the title of your document show up in the window. The title tag is:
<title>this is my website isn't it cool</title>

Other tags change the way text looks, like bold or italic. Try some of these others:
<i></i> makes text italic
<tt></tt> makes text teletype
<h1></h1> makes text into a header, 1 is the largest, 6 is the smallest
<hr></hr> puts a horizontal line on your page
<center></center> makes text align center
<blockquote></blockquote> makes the text indented

You can also format large pieces of text like a paragraph with the p tag:
<p></p>

If you want that paragraph oriented, you can add the align command:
align="center"
align="right"
align="left"

So if you want a paragraph that is left oriented, then your tag looks like this:
<p align="left"></p>

To make text into a link you can use the a tag. To link to a local document you can
write your html like this:
<a href="aboutme.html">About Me"</a>

If your link goes to an external site then you must include the entire URL like this:
<a href="http://www.myblogwebsite.com">My Blog"</a>

You can set the color of several different things in HTML. In the <body> tag, the bgcolortextlinkvlink, and alink attributes define the colors for the page background, text, unvisited links, visited links, and active links (i.e. the moment the link is being clicked on).

To change text color for part of a page, use the <font> container tag with a color attribute.

Color attribute values take one of the following forms:
"#RRGGBB", where RRGG, and BB are the red, green, and blue components of the color, in hex, ranging from 00 to FF.

One of sixteen "widely understood color names": aquablackbluefuchsiagraygreenlimemaroonnavyolivepurpleredsilvertealwhite (white), or yellow (yellow)

Hex code color chart from w3schools.com

HTML COLOR AND BACKGROUND TAGS
Adding color to your html files is easy. You can also use images for backgrounds as well.

Adding a background color is easy, add the bgcolor tag to your body tag. Pick a color from the chart above and type in the 6 digit hexadecimal code.
<body bgcolor="669933">

Adding a background image is easy too. Use the background tag to repeat an image across your background.
<body background="yourfilenamehere.jpg">

Check out these tags below to add color to text. Remember just wrap these tags around the text you want to modify.
<font size="3" color="red">This is some text!</font>
<font size="2" color="blue">This is some text!</font>
<font face="verdana" color="green">This is some text!</font>

Embedding images is easy too, but I will let you figure that one out on your own!  ;-)

Check out this website called HTML MADE EASY:


- Mr.Wilson



Ok have fun!

Monday, January 22, 2018

CTE Web Design Day 1

Todays Agenda:
  • Lecture: The Internet
  • Search Engine Exercise


Search Engine Exercise:
Search engines allow you to search a database of web sites and files. Google and Bing allow you to search a directory of sites that have been registered by the site owners, for example yahoo. a Meta-search engine searchers other search engines, for example ixquick. 

A good searching strategy is the key to finding the information you need:

Searching Tips:
  • Become familiar with more than one search engine, understand that different engines compile data differently. For example, google's boolean search technique is based upon popularity, but not always relevance
  • Be as specific as possible in your search terms. Use unique words or phrases
  • Use a niche site for your search, for instance amazon, or wikipedia
  • Use boolean operators in a meaningful manner (and, or, not)
  • Pay attention to publishing dates, file sources. Not everything on the internet is true
  • Don't give up easily, adjust your search terms. Experiment to find your results
  • BE A NINJA. Try using the Advanced Google Search
  • BE A SUPER NINJA. Try writing Advanced Google Search terms as code right in the browser!

Search Engine Ninja Exercise:
Research the questions below using a search engine or engines. Use advanced search techniques or specific sites to discover your answers. Compile the answers to all 10 questions and email them to me at sethwilson@sccs.santacruz.k12.ca.us

1. What does CSS and HTML stand for?
2. Who invented term "surfing" the internet?
3. Who is know as the "Mother of COBOL" and what phrase did they popularize?
4. What is the HTML Tag that defines Emphasized Text?
5. How many Gigabytes in a Petabyte?
6. Who sent the worlds first Email?
7. What is the EFF and what do they do?
8. What is UTF-8?
9. Who invented the font "Helvetica" and what is the meaning of its name?
10. What do the letters in HTTP and FTP stand for?

Compile your answers and email them to me. Make sure you include your name and title of this exercise in the subject of your email.

Thank You Web Design Class of 2017


Thank you to all my great students from this years ROP Web Design class. There were some very impressive portfolios and final projects and I look forward to seeing a few of you in my classes next year.



This blog will go live again for the spring semester 2018 CTE Web Design class.

- Mr.W