Courses/Design & Technique-Essential Web Design/02

FROM (previous) Classes 01

INTEGRATE

Editor, Browser, Go

• Editor - your HTML writing tool
• Browser - the interpreter of HTML, but also a debug and prototyping space. (Read about what goes on behind the scenes in a Web browser )

HTML

• HTML is a markup language
• meaning: content is marked with different "values"; e.g: paragraph, bold, italic, heading title, etc
• marking is done through tags that wrap the content

http://publicationstation.wdka.hro.nl/go/kickoff/imgs/html.gif

• In order to format content with tags you need to enter the content between an opening and closing element. As in the following case:

<h1>My Title</h1>

• • <h1> is the opening tag
  • </h1> is the closing tag

• at times you'll find self-closing tags which have no content inside them, like horizontal rulers

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or line breaks <br/>

essential HTML tags

Title Headers: <h1>,<h2>,<h3>,<h4>
Paragraph: <p>
Line break: <br />
italics: <i>
bold: <b>

Comments: <!-- comments -->

HTML skeleton

The previous tags only provided content formatting, yet to create any working web-page we need to always place the content inside a HTML page skeleton.

See HTML Element Reference for a exhaustive list of the HTML tags.

References, Notes and Optional Reading

“The Birth of the Web,” http://home.web.cern.ch/topics/birth-web .

Technical Resources

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML - HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element - HTML element reference

Optional Reading

Stephenson, Neal. “Mother Earth Mother Board.” Wired, http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html.

Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet. MIT Press, 2000.

“Introduction to HTML” https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Introduction

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HTML element reference

... is your friend. It gives you information and examples on every HTML element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element

<a> anchor tag - hyperlinks

<a href="http://www.worm.org/">Worm website</a>
<br/>
<a href="http://tentrotterdam.nl/">tentrotterdam.nl</a>

• the href (address) of a link has to be a complete URL: beginning with http or https

remote links

Normally, like in the example above, you use links to point users to other sites.

Those are remote links

local links

Also usually you use local links.

Those are links to other files/pages you have create.

They allow to move within your website.

Go to next <a href="next.html">Next</a> page.

<img> image tag

<img src="http://data.whicdn.com/images/106829085/large.gif" />
<br/>
<img src="my-img.jpg" />

Local file paths

Local links and image are some times in parent or child folders, different from the folder of your webpage.

To get an image to load or link to land on the right file, you have to indicate the correct path to them.

Local file paths exercise

• Create an HTML file, that uses other local images and links to other local html files.
• Move the HTML file to a different folder.
• Keep images and linked pages in the fold they were it.
• Try to make all the local files are not broken in HTML file

<div> div tag

The div tag is essentially a container of other content.

<div style="background:black; color:red; width:400px">                      
    <h1>Beautiful page</h1>                                                     
    <p>writing stuff                                                            
      <i>inside</i>                                                             
    </p>                                                                        
</div>

<span> span tag

The span tag is like a color marker on text

<p>A magazine that offers a platform for 
   <span style="background:red; color:blue; font-size:40px">challenging and engaging</span> 
design and art practices</p>

style it is an attribute

tags' attributes

attributes are parameters that most the HTML tags allow

<a> attributes:

<a href="http://wdka.hro.nl/" target="_self">link</a> <!-- target="_self": Loads the response into the SAME tab-->                  
<br/>                                                                                                                                    
<a href="http://wdka.hro.nl/" target="_blank">link</a> <!-- target="_blank": Loads the response into a NEW tab-->

• href: url or file of the link
• target: where (in what window) to display the linked file.

<img> attributes:

<img src="http://www.wdka.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/01/Project-Show_I1.jpeg" title="my pic" height="100px" width="200px"/>

• src: location of the image
• title: title of the image
• width
• height

assignment #1

Create a webpage that is a minimalist painting.

inspiration

• Kazimir Malevich
• Yves Klein
• Mark Rothko
• Piet Mondrian
• Sol LeWitt

WORK FROM INSTRUCTIONS (1971):
USING A BLACK, HARD CRAYON DRAW A TWENTY INCH SQUARE. DIVIDE THIS SQUARE INTO ONE INCH SQUARES. WITHIN EACH ONE INCH SQUARE, DRAW NOTHING, OR DRAW A DIAGONAL STRAIGHT LINE FROM CORNER TO CORNER OR TWO CROSSING STRAIGHT LINES DIAGONALLY FROM CORNER TO CORNER.

assignment #2

Build a short story using links. At each link the user learns more, or gets more confused, about the story. It can simply be a labyrinth.

inspiration

• Hypertext fiction
• Olia Lialina My Boyfriend Came Back From the War
• Olia Lialina Agatha Appears
• jodi wwwwwwwww.jodi.org

notes

• did not do id or class in morning.