Web Programming Chapter 2 Lab Exercise
Tom Linton, Cental College, January 28, 2004
  1. Start a browser and go to a search engine site (you can try one of these, or your own www.dogpile.com, www.google.com, www.altavista.com, www.lycos.com). Search for a web page related to one of your favorite activities, hobbies, sports, etc. Find a web page with several paragraphs of text related to this topic. Highlight some text (you'll want 4 or 5 paragraphs in all) and copy it.
  2. Start up a simple text editor (like Notepad) and paste the text into your simple text editor file. It should get pasted as "just text", no HTML or other funny looking things. If this fails, try a different website, or different text.
  3. Using the tags and elements in chapter 2 of our text (try to use most of the chapter 2 elements and tags, but don't over-do it), convert your text document into an XHTML source file. You may need to add a few lines or words of your own.
  4. Put your name(s) in the <title> element of your source file.
  5. Name your page chapter2labex.htm and hand it in via Blackboard (under the assignments area).