ENGL 467: Web Exercise Two

Web Exercise Two

Choose a favorite poem, or song lyric. It shouldn't be longer than about a page or so. Type the text into an HTML file you create using Pico (or rather than manual typing, you may be able to simply copy and paste the text into your file if you can find it online). Add all of the following tags to the text. You can learn all the HTML you'll need by viewing the source of this document. Try to think of ways to use the tags creatively, imaginatively; use the HTML presentation of the poem or lyric as an opportunity to perform a visual interpretation.

place a portion of your text boldface; place a portion of your text in italics
experiment with horizontal rules <hr>, like the one at the very bottom of this page
experiment with differ kinds of headers; the one above ("Web Exercise Two") is an <h2>; try <h1> and <h3>
center a portion of the text (or an image)
add a background image to your page
change the default text, link, and visited link colors for your page; here are the hexidecimal color codes you'll need
change the font color and size for various words or phrases on your page
change the font face to arial and courier
create a "mailto" link so people can send you email directly from your page; mine would look something like this: mk235@umail.umd.edu
add at least one additional image to the page; it should be relevant to the text you're working with
add at least one additional link, anchored in a word, phrase, or line from the text you're working with

Additional informatoin about HTML and Web design is available from the course links page. I recommend the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities' Tutorial as a good place to start.

Web Exercise 2.0 is due Monday, October 8.
Please email your URL to me:

mk235@umail.umd.edu