I'll get around to repping those who helped later on, I appreciate it fellas. It's a pretty basic project, the topic I chose was family. I'm a little confused though. In the instructions she put this: "Use your Word processing skills. Open a blank Microsoft Word document. Type text and insert pictures which you want to appear in your personal web page. Save your web page as index.html inside HTML folder and be ready to burn it on CD or transfer your web page to any server (Angelfire server is free), including every inserted file-images and linked documents. All appropriate images, sounds must be transferred under sub-folder" I thought I would just use notepad. Here's an example page that she sent us but they used a site called weebly to create it apparently: http://dmhdenisehome.weebly.com/ Once again, any help is appreciated!
I don't think she wants you to learn HTML. I think she wants you to learn how to publish a web page. With the instructions she gave you, what you're doing is essentially creating a document by using Microsoft Word, then choosing "save As..." and the file type will be "HTML" and saving it with a .html extension, it will be a web page with HTML, but you didn't do any markup nor learned any HTML. And... Angelfire? Really? I thought she would say for you to upload it to your school's server, which should be free and available to you.
I'm confused by the assignment. The webpage example she is using is not pure html. It is html AND css. Viewing the page source on this webpage is pretty depressing stuff. For one thing, css litters the html document, which it should be separate. In addition, you've got a ton of jquery scripts at the bottom. If I didn't know anything about html, this page wouldn't teach me anything. The anatomy of an html page is basically two fold: you have the head and the body. The HEAD element contains information about the current document, such as its title, keywords that may be useful to search engines, and other data that is not considered document content. The most common is: css style sheets. Here is an example of a head tag: <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Your Title</title> <meta name="description" content=the description of the page /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/bootstrap.min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css"> </head> <body> some content </body> </html> html, at its heart, is simply a structuring language. CSS is presentation.
Yeah, I'm pretty lost. I created my homepage through weebly and wanted to link to my html page through there, but not sure if I will be able to do that. I may just do everything through weebly. All I have to do is link to an excel, word and powerpoint file, post some pictures, maybe a video as well and type a little about myself and my topic. And maybe try to make it not so plain. Problem is, she has not taught us anything on html, just tells us to research how to videos or whatever.
I should have clarified. That was just the first part. The second part is where she wants us to open notepad and do the tagging. I got the html, head, body and title tags so far only watched a 12 min youtube video just to pick up other tags like breaks and paragraphs, but I don't really see how that'll help me.
I would send her an email or talk to her about it and explain that you don't understand what the objective is. I do think that Swoly-D is on the right track. She just wants you to PUBLISH a page, not CREATE a page.
Yeah, I've emailed her a couple of times today, with no response. It's due tomorrow night. I guess I could maybe get a couple answers here. I'd like to know the tags for: adding an image from your computer, adding a page background to make the page not so plain and how to create links to files such as word, etc.
Honestly breh, this is a bs class and you'd be better served learning real programming (ruby koans/online...python/java from code academy our another online service)or using an app like WordPress or octopress. No one codes in html anymore.they let frameworks handle it. CSS has a use if you're a graphic designer. Otherwise something like Twitter's Bootstrap is a simple way to make a site. Trust me on this...
Word can save documents as web pages but the HTML/CSS it creates is really bad and you should avoid it if possible. If using a site like weebly is acceptable that could be the easiest. I'm assuming they have some sort of CMS that you use to publish content so that may not be what she wants. If you are supposed to build a site from scratch you'll need some place to host it. Once you've created your files you can upload it to the server (usually via FTP) to publish it. To add images use the IMG tag and set the SRC attribute to the location of your image. For links use an anchor tag and set the HREF attribute to where you want the link to go. Code: <img src="images/picture.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.google.com">Click here for google</a>
