comm207fall06
a weblog for Pete Ellertsen's students in Communications 207 (editing for publication) at Benedictine University/Springfield. Link here to my faculty page.Tuesday, October 31, 2006
In-class assignment: Halloween
To do this one, you're going to need to open several windows. So let's get started:
1. First, keep this one open.
2. Then click on the Microsoft Explorer icon and open another one. Go to Blogger, and get into the dashboard. Leave it open, too.
3. Open a third window, and go to one of the HTML cheat sheets we've looked at. That should be enough for now.
Now you're going to create a web page ... well, actually, a blog entry created by using the HTML tags. Go back to the first window and make sure the "Create" field is set on "Edit Html." Decide what you're going to call it.
If you were starting from scratch in Notepad, you would put an HTML tag and a coupole of other codes at top. In Blogger, you don't have to. So let's not. Let's just start with a headline. Decide what you want to call it, and use the headline tags (H1, H2, etc.) to set it in big, or not-so-big type. Don't forget to close the headline with a bracket-slash tag that repeats the HTML code, too.
Drop down a line, and start typing the text of your blog in body type. Say anything you want that isn't illegal, obscene, loaded with trans-fats or otherwise unworthy of you. Somewhere in your text, use a hypertext (a href="URL" etc.) tag to create a link. Don't forget to close it with a slash-a tag.
Do you want a nice Halloween type picture to put in your blog? Sure. Why not? Well, here's one ... well, here's its URL ... http://www.sci.edu/brink2.jpg ... all ready to paste in between a couple of image tags, which you'll find on the cheat sheet and paste into the blog.
Easy, isn't it? It works because blogs are written in HTML, and the Blogger dashboard lets you write a simplified version of HTML. You can also click the tab over to "Compose," which gives you a WYSIWYG* screen. But I think it's more fun to do the editing in the HTML setting.
You know what WYSIWYG stands for, don't you? It's an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get." About 10 years ago when WYSISYG graphics were still new, you heard it used a lot. Now almost everything is WYSIWIG, so you don't hear as much about it. But it's still there.
1. First, keep this one open.
2. Then click on the Microsoft Explorer icon and open another one. Go to Blogger, and get into the dashboard. Leave it open, too.
3. Open a third window, and go to one of the HTML cheat sheets we've looked at. That should be enough for now.
Now you're going to create a web page ... well, actually, a blog entry created by using the HTML tags. Go back to the first window and make sure the "Create" field is set on "Edit Html." Decide what you're going to call it.
If you were starting from scratch in Notepad, you would put an HTML tag and a coupole of other codes at top. In Blogger, you don't have to. So let's not. Let's just start with a headline. Decide what you want to call it, and use the headline tags (H1, H2, etc.) to set it in big, or not-so-big type. Don't forget to close the headline with a bracket-slash tag that repeats the HTML code, too.
Drop down a line, and start typing the text of your blog in body type. Say anything you want that isn't illegal, obscene, loaded with trans-fats or otherwise unworthy of you. Somewhere in your text, use a hypertext (a href="URL" etc.) tag to create a link. Don't forget to close it with a slash-a tag.
Do you want a nice Halloween type picture to put in your blog? Sure. Why not? Well, here's one ... well, here's its URL ... http://www.sci.edu/brink2.jpg ... all ready to paste in between a couple of image tags, which you'll find on the cheat sheet and paste into the blog.
Easy, isn't it? It works because blogs are written in HTML, and the Blogger dashboard lets you write a simplified version of HTML. You can also click the tab over to "Compose," which gives you a WYSIWYG* screen. But I think it's more fun to do the editing in the HTML setting.
You know what WYSIWYG stands for, don't you? It's an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get." About 10 years ago when WYSISYG graphics were still new, you heard it used a lot. Now almost everything is WYSIWIG, so you don't hear as much about it. But it's still there.
posted by Pete # 12:51 PM 
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