1. Brief History of Web
  2. World Wide Web Consortium Official arbiters of the net
  3. Summary of Basic HTML 3.2 commands
  4. Summary of Basic HTML 4 commands ( full document )
  5. Use of frames ( frame examples)
  6. Web Style Guides ( Yale Style Guide)
  7. HTML Validation (W3C Validator)
Components of the first Project (due Wed. 7/16/01):
  1. Create student home page on http://calclab.math.tamu.edu/
    1. Must contain at least two frames with one frame containing navigational links to the following components:

  2. One or more pages which give examples of the basic html commands illustrating:
    1. alignment (left, center, right)
    2. backgrounds (body, table, image, ...)
    3. color (body, table, td, image, font, ...)
    4. font styles (family, size, superscripts, subscripts, etc.)
    5. header styles
    6. images (scaling, alignment, ...)
    7. links (href, target, ...)
    8. rules (color, width, thickness)
    9. tables (formatting, color, border styles, alignment, etc.)

  3. One or more pages which gives examples of style sheets.
    1. <div> tags
    2. use of name, class, id
    3. use of attributes
    4. absolute vs. relative positioning
    5. visibility
Note: The above pages should be "pure" HTML, that is, not the result of an HTML authoring package such as composer, dreamweaver, frontpage, etc. The purpose of this exercise is to make sure you understand the basic HTML syntax before you use an authoring tool.

Although you may use other web pages as examples, resist the urge to cut and paste excessively ...