Resources, and Assignment for Thursday

Your assignment for Thursday's class:

Post a one or two paragraph description of the website you'd like to make for the first major "website project" for this class, and provide at least four links to websites that are in the same "genre" of the website you'd like to make -- make sure at least two of the links are sites you think are designed particularly well. In your paragraph, be sure to include who you think the audience for your website will be.

Some resource links:

The SPAN tag:

http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_span.asp

http://www.webheadstart.org/xhtml/span/

HTML linking syntax:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

Link styles with css:

http://www.echoecho.com/csslinks.htm

Free web hosting:

http://www.www.110mb.com

Here's the Borges story formatted as a hypertext story:

http://www.geocities.com/papanagnou/cover.htm

And, for our in-class assignment today, here's a paragraph of Borges:

I said out loud: I must flee. I sat up noiselessly, in a useless perfection of silence, as if Madden were already lying in wait for me. Something--perhaps the mere vain ostentation of proving my resources were nil--made me look through my pockets. I found what I knew I would find. The American watch, the nickel chain and the square coin, the key ring with the incriminating useless keys to Runeberg's apartment, the notebook, a letter which I resolved to destroy immediately (and which I did not destroy), a crown, two shillings and a few pence, the red and blue pencil, the handkerchief, the revolver with one bullet. Absurdly, I took it in my hand and weighed it in order to inspire courage within myself. Vaguely I thought that a pistol report can be heard at a great distance. In ten minutes my plan was perfected. The telephone book listed the name of the only person capable of transmitting the message; he lived in a suburb of Fenton, less than a half hour's train ride away.