Tuesday 12 -11: first day in HTML design

Salutations, and goody good morning to you all!

Today, we are going to begin a new topic in this course: web design. More specifically, it will be web design using raw HTML code. It's actually pretty simple to do, and there's lots and lots of cool stuff that can be accomplished using these techniques.

But first, we have to set up the tools which we will use to accomplish this goal.

When creating webpages from pure code, the only essential tools are:

A) a simple text editor

B) a browser to look at the result of your work

We already have our choice of browsers; and, we have a simple text editor on your machines called "TextEdit". But before we can begin coding, we have to configure this program to do what it is we want it to do.

So let's get this program set up, shall we ? Here is what to do


1. Open TextEdit. 
2. Choose Preferences from the TextEdit application menu. 
3. In the "New Document" tab, click the radio button for "Plain Text" 
4. In the Open and Save tab, click the checkbox to turn on "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files."
5. Close the Preferences window
6. Close your TextEdit window
7. Shut down then re-start TextEdit


Once this is done, the next step should work perfectly :-)

cheers,
Mr. L