Week One - Create a Simple Web Page

The code has to be barebones text only. If you are using Microsoft Word, save in text-only format but change the extension from .txt to .html. You cannot use Textedit (macintosh) for an editor because it adds conversion code and will not save as just text. A barebones text editor, TextWrangler, is available in the RCADE lab and at http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/

Paste this line at the top of your page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

1. Open the head statement

2. The title of the page is "Simple Web Page"

3. Provide a description of the page for the Search Engine to use.

4. Provide the key word phrases: "basic html" and "my name is Mary"

5. Close head statement

6. Open the body statement

7. Make a comment that will not be seen by the browser.

8. Make a large heading with the words "Main Heading"

9. The text below your heading is "This is a simple web page"

10. Make a smaller heading with the words "Sub Heading"

11. Close the body statement.

12. Close the html statement.