Mar 30
2016
 11:57 PM

Website

My site can be found at here.

There is an internal link to an about me page as well as an external link to my linked in account along with a header containing my contact information.

Mar 30
2016
 8:43 PM

Website

This is my website on a real person that i know, although I talked in the first person as him. All the facts about him are real except that I am not him. I choose the blue and grey colors because they remind me of  the ocean.  Here is my link http://home.sandiego.edu/~jcharmello/

Mar 30
2016
 8:42 PM
Mar 29
2016
 4:40 PM
Mar 24
2016
 9:50 PM

A POET’S WORK

My page is dedicated to the literary and visual arts:  Mainly poetry and images that I find have some poetic sensibilities (which means – I liked the pictures for some strange reason).

ON THE PROCESS:

I had some difficulty with the external css.  I had to reword the line:

<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”poetic.css”>

Once I did that, it worked.  I went to: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_howto.asp for help. I copied their example:  <link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“mystyle.css”>.  I swapped out “mystyle.css” for my more “poetic.css” and I was in business.  Then I spent way too many hours changing colors and building borders.  I was like a toddler with a white wall and crayons, and no adult supervision.

MY PAGE:

http://home.sandiego.edu/~pzhilburn/HilburnPoetics/DropTheMic.html

PS-It might not be mobile phone friendly, but it still comes up looking pretty cool (and the links work too).

Mar 22
2016
 1:44 PM

Assignment 5 Technical Hint 3

HTML escape codes

You may find the way HTML handles special characters a challenge. Molly has already solved this problem for the apostrophe in the word “y’all”. Use the view source feature of your browser to take a look at her webpage for an example of how to use HTML escape characters. You can find many lists of HTML escape characters on the internet. This one is a reasonable place to start.

Mar 22
2016
 1:10 PM

Assignment 5 Technical Hint 2

Link to an external CSS stylesheet

I’ve noticed that most of you are still putting style directives in the header section of your HTML file, like this:

<html>
<head>
<style>
p {color:gray;}
body {font-family: Andale Mono; font-size: 150%}
</style>
...
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

It’s considered best practice to put style directives in an external .css file, and to link to it from your HTML file like this:

<html>
<head>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="wyldstyle.css"/>
...
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
Mar 20
2016
 2:02 PM

Assignment 5 Technical Hint 1

Editing HTML using TextEdit

Some of you have had problems with unexpected garbage characters appearing when you view your HTML files (e.g., “Ted’s” instead of “Ted’s”). The reason for this is that TextEdit uses smart quotes by default, and you have to explicitly turn off this feature. Open TextEdit and go to Preferences (click on the image below to enlarge). Under Format (at the top), make sure to check the radio button for Plain text instead of Rich text. Under Options (at the bottom), make sure to uncheck the checkboxes for Smart quotes and Smart dashes. Close and reopen TextEdit for your changes to take effect. You will then have to re-edit your file so that all of the single and double quotes are the plain old vanilla single and double quote characters. (You’ll know you’ve got the correct ones when the open quote and close quote characters look exactly the same.)

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Mar 19
2016
 8:48 PM

Assignment 5: HTML webpage

Instead of the usual handout, I’m publishing this post for you to refer to when working on Assignment 5. The deliverable for Assignment 5 is for you to create an HTML webpage introducing yourself (the way you would on, say, Facebook), and to upload it using the USD Unet File Manager to your personal HTML webpage on home.sandiego.edu. Your webpage should include at least one image, at least one external hyperlink, and use an external .css file to control font family, color, and size attributes. When you’ve done so, please publish a post here on the English 294 WordPress site pointing to your webpage. (Unlike previous assignments, there is no length requirement for the WordPress post, although I’d appreciate something more than just the hyperlink itself.)

In the interest of Internet privacy, your self-introduction may introduce an entirely fictional “self”, along the lines of the Manatee character from the in-class demo. But be sure to follow the conventions of the genre: write in the first person, and embellish your character (e.g., “I’m a manatee. I live in Florida. I hang out at the power plant with all the other manatees when the weather is cold. I like to eat heads of lettuce.” You get the idea.)

The assignment is due Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 11:59 PM PDT.

Mar 14
2016
 9:02 PM

Wikipedia edit

Monterey High editing history

My edit to this page was adding a notable alumni to the schools list of Alumni. I added Pete J. Cutino a former water polo player and swimmer at the school. I was able to discover this lack of information because I attended Monterey High and was told many stories about Pete Cutino by my own water polo coach, and while looking for pages to edit I checked my high school, Monterey High in an attempt to find any corrections or additions that could be made, leading me to find that Pete as absent from the list of notable alumni.

Pete J. Cutino is the all time winning-est college water polo coach in US history. Cutino also has an NCAA award named after him for excellence in water polo, and many other notable accomplishments; these reasons initially gave me the idea that Cutino would be a relevant addition to the list. Cutino also already has a wikipedia page noting both his accomplishments in both swimming and water polo, and his attendance at Monterey High, similarly to the other alumni listed and another reason that inspired me to add Cutino to the list. The source I cited for Cutinos attendance at Monterey High is the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, an online record of members of the Italian American hall of fame, which cites his induction due to his accomplishments, as well as referencing his career as a water polo player and swimmer for Monterey High.

The Addition of Cutino to the page is important because he is a sufficiently recognizable and influential figure in the history of water polo and monterey high and therefore be listed under the Notable Alumni section.