Monday, July 20, 2009

Hypertext

Have you been caught without your WYSIWYG editor yet? You know, when you're leaving a comment on someones blog, or trying to add a description to a photo and the text input box doesn't have the button for creating a link, making bold, or making italic.

Let's drill this tonight. It comes in very handy.

1. Do a Google search for "what is the HTML for a link?". If your first result is something from W3Schools - you're on a good path. But just about anything will do.

2. Leave a comment to this post and use the HTML to link to the page you found and are referring to.

3. Now find me a good video on HTML and leave me another comment with a link to it.. but this time I want it all in italics

4. Finally, what does Wikipedia have to say about HTML.. is there a course on HTML at their sister project Wikiversity? So what you can find and leave another comment with a hyperlink and one word in bold and another word in italics.

5. If you think you have the hang of it, try commenting me a picture. I wonder if that one will work.

See you tonight at 6pm

10 comments:

Chris Labes said...
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Veronique said...

Here's a link to some info:
W3Schools
All good.

Chris Labes said...

So, leaving a comment, leaving a comment... have indeed already been caught out with my first post. So, now here I am doing it right... here's a hyperlink to the page that I found my hyperlink info on Link text

fingers crossed it's working

Durable Graphics said...

My thing Visit my Flickr account!

Chris Labes said...
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Durable Graphics said...

This is BIG

Veronique said...

Here's a link to a video in italics:
Video link

Not as easy as it sounds.

Chris Labes said...

HTML Video Link

Got it!!

Durable Graphics said...

This sucks

Hotdog!

Veronique said...

Wikipedia has this to say about html:

HTML, which stands for Hypertext Mark-up Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It is essentially a scripting language that marks up text to indicate to a web browser how the text is to be displayed, as well as to enable links, and other features.