EXERCISES 

FOLLOWING THE RULES EXERCISE 1

PURPOSE

To understand the importance of adhering to preset rules, standards and styles in building web documents.

TASK

Individual task.

Create an HTML document in Notepad with the title: Start Here.

Set the background colour to navy and the text colour to silver.

Add a simple graphic, centered at the top of the page. Have this graphic link to yahoo! [http://www.yahoo.com].

Below the graphic, left justified, set in heading 2, add: Please start here.

Add a horizontal rule below this.

Below the horizontal rule, in heading four, type your name.

Save this file in your home directory [H:\] as: rule1.htm

Launch this file in your browser.

Notify the instructor.

TIME: 10 minutes

FOLLOWING THE RULES EXERCISE 2

PURPOSE

To understand the importance of adhering to preset rules, standards and styles in building web documents.

TASK

Group task.

In small groups, have each group member create an HTML document containing one graphic [non-animated GIF] with the same dimensions and the same alignment.

Each page must have a title tag and the same title name appearing in the body in Heading 1.

Each page must contain two unique links [that cannot be found on the other pages].

Each group must have an index page and have a link on the index page to each of the other pages.

Each page created must link back to the index page.

Use common and logical filenames.

Collect all the pages into one common directory.

Launch the site in a browser.

Notify the instructor.

TIME: 20 minutes