Believe What You Believe

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Grade: Why I like neopets.com - B+

B+ Josh lost a whole letter grade because he completely failed to add a space after each punctuation mark!

Otherwise, he wrote a nice piece - even if it was (mostly) one huge run-on sentence. He also seemed to grasp how links are done.
Next Assignment:

Learn to embed a pictures in your blog. To fulfill the requirements of this assignment Joshua must:

1) Find a small picture on another site that he likes.
2) Write a paragraph about the site or the picture.
3) Have a text link to the page that the picture appears on.
4) Create an HTML image tag with uses that picture.
5) Make the picture also link to the page that the picture appears on.
Here is the basic structure of a image tag:

You start with a Less Than Sign (<)
then you type 'img', which tells the browser that an image is coming (duh!),
then you type a space,
then you type 'src=', which is sort-of like the href part in a link,
then you type a quote ("),
then you type or paste the address of the picture (http://blahdiddyblah...),
then you type another quote ("),
and you finish with the Greater Than Sign (>).

Here is what an image tag should look like when you put all the parts together:

<img src="http://some.website.address/somedirectory/someimagename.ext">

Example: Here's a picture I thought was very cool:

<img src="http://www.bushgame.com/sprites/v1.gif">

Which will show up like this:



Got it? Good! Get Going!

Thursday, May 27, 2004

Grade: A Fishy Story: A-

Pretty good! I'm giving it an A-.

Things to watch out for:

Make sure you put a space between punctuation and the next sentence.

This is for checking your spelling. While it's not going to catch everything, it is a good start. Learn to use it.




After a quick Google, it turns out there are HTML guides for kids! Josh, check these out; they will be on the test!

Learning HTML for Kids

Webmonkey for Kids