SLC Faculty on the Web

Use of Web Sites for Teaching

Hypertext: The Foundation of the Web Memex

Hypertext is the means of connecting a host of disparate documents. All web pages are written in a simple language, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) that allows the creator to mark up a page of text to indicate how it should be laid out, where images should be placed, and most importantly to lay connections to other HTML documents on the Web. I find this language very appealing and flexible. It's like old-fashioned word processors that predate WYSIWYG text editors like Word and WordPerfect: you have to insert commands to instruct a Web Browser, such as Netscape or ME how to set out the text.

The format of an HTML page
A basic example of hyperlinking
An introductory bare bones HTML tutorial prepared in collaboration with Shuba Gopal
A detailed HTML tutorial by Mike Smith of Brighton University
URL: http://snowwhite.it.brighton.ac.uk/
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Software for Creating HTML Files

You can create HTML files with:

Specialized HTML editors: we have BBEdit for Mac and HomeSite for PC
The simple text editors that come with your machine: SimpleText (Mac) or Notepad (PC)
Your usual word processing package, by saving the text as 'Text Only'. Remember that none of your word processing formatting will work.