Denise's Virtual Notebook

(Lesson 2)

We are now in the second week of our class. In this lesson we reviewed points from the first lesson and have learned many new things. I will attempt to show some of the things I have learned.

The Horizontal Rule tag creates a straight line that is centered across the page. You can modify this tag by changing its attributes, such as width, alignment and size.

The Break tag creates a line break with no extra space between two lines of text.

This is how my text looks if I don't use the break tag:

This is my first line of text. This is my second line of text. This is my third line of text. This is my fourth line of text.

Now this is how my text looks when I use the break tag:

    This is my first line of text.
    This is my second line of text.
    This is my third line of text.
    This is my fourth line of text.

The Heading tag set is created by placing text between the two halves of the tag set and using a "number" from one to six together with the "h". My page heading is an example of this type of tag. This is what my heading would look like in other sizes:

Denise's Virtual Notebook

We learned how to create unordered and ordered lists.

My VU Classes:

HTML 1: Web Page Design for Beginners
Introduction to Copyright Law
How to Write a Living Will
Spanish for Beginners

My Favorite Seafood:

Lobster
Clams
Shrimp

By doing a web search I also learned how to create a definition list:

Browser: The software used to view, manage, and access web pages by interpreting hypertext and hyperlinks.
FTP: Stands for File Transfer Protocol, FTP allows you to copy or send files (HTML-documents, graphic images, spreadsheets) from one computer to another via the Internet.
HTML: Abbreviation for Hypertext Markup Language; a cross-platform text-formatting system for creating web pages, including copy, images, sounds, frames, animation and more.

In this lesson I learned how to use 'Special Characters' which are used to interpret various symbols and characters which would otherwise not display properly on the screen. A few that I used on both this page and on Page 1 are:

< which allows me to demonstrate on a web page the left angle bracket (<)

> which allows me to demonstrate on a web page the right angle bracket (>)

  which creates a "non-breaking space" and allows me to add spaces at the beginning of a paragraph to indent it or between words to create different effects

I will try to get others added as time permits. I'm finding this the most difficult concept thus far! I think my brain has become boggled!!

Links to 'Special Character' sites:

Writing HTML Lesson 10
Web Monkey
Special Characters
Help With HTML Tags & Special Characters
FAQ: Special Characters for the Web

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