WWW Authoring Day 2: Day 2 Exercise 7

We're going to take that short list of links-- links.htm-- and change the paragraph listing of links into first a bullet list, and then into a descriptive list, with annotations. Descriptive lists are very useful ways of organizing lists of related or favorite sites.

Part 7.1: Create an Unordered List.

  1. Go back to your links.htm file in Wordpad.
  2. At the top of the list (BEFORE the first entry), insert <UL> (the "start unordered list" tag).
  3. At the bottom of the list (AFTER the last entry), insert </UL> (the "end unordered list" tag).
  4. Change the <P> tags in front of each item to <LI> tags, making each of them a "list item".
  5. Choose Save from the File menu to save the changes you've made to the file.
  6. Use WIN FTP to upload the file again.
  7. Click Reload (or use "Open File in Browser") to view the new version of the page.

Part 7.2: Create a Definition List.

Definition Lists (<DL>) are slightly more complex than Ordered or Unordered Lists. Each item in a definition list has two types of information: the Title (<DT>) and the definition(s) (<DD>); each DT can have more or less than one DD under it.
  1. Change the start and end tags (<UL> </UL>) to <DL> </DL>.
  2. Change the <LI> tags to <DT>.
  3. After each site on the list, add <DD> tag followed by a short description.
  4. Save the file.
  5. Upload the saved copy to your webspace with Win FTP.
  6. Click Reload (or use "Open File in Browser") to view the new version of the page.
End of Exercise.
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JAH, September 10, 1997.