Business Web Page Project (Due Friday 2/19)

Begin with the basic files (index.html and mybusiness.css).  The files already include H1 and H2 tags as well as a FOOTER and other formatting CSS.

Create a business web page for a business of your choice (fictitious is okay as long as it is school appropriate).  Today you should just get the business details entered (name of business, address, phone number, type of business, etc.) and update the "bulleted list".  Tomorrow we will begin adding graphics to the page.

Thursday we will add additional pages [that link to the same CSS file].

Friday we will finish up our business web pages for the first graded web assignment.

Building a Basic Business Web Site

Today we will begin exploring some more advanced features and functions of HTML and XML -- which, when used together, are XHTML.  There is a standard layout that you should begin every web page with, but rather than type it up every single time, I suggest having a template to start with and modify.  I'm including a file here (right-click and save this file to your desktop) that you can begin with.

We will begin a basic web site which you will need to save and continue to work on.  You can save it to ThawSpace but I strongly recomment saving them to a USB drive or even a floppy disk.  You can also email your document(s) to yourself as a backup.  We will be adding to this site for several days so you don't want to start over if your files get deleted.

Today we will also discuss Site Maps, Page Layouts, and main pages.

Beginning HTML

Today we began with the basics HTML.   

You can click on the image to the right to view a sample HTML document.

We also began using a free program called Notepad++ (available free here) which is far superior to the Notepad that comes with Microsoft Windows.  It's free to download, easy to install, and worth checking out.

Finally, I am embedding a "video tutorial" below to help cover the basics of HTML.  This will [hopefully] be useful for students who need a refresher, those who need to pause and work at their own speed, or those who were absent during the original lecture.