And open a window to the page on creating HTML links in the W3Schools website. Just in case you want to cheat by copying and pasting the HTML code instead of trying to remember it just yet.
But first, an assignment for Thursday: Read Chapter 13, "Editing and the Law" (pages 209-225), in Ludwig and Gilmore, "Modern News Editing." It looks like a drab, cloudy late autumn weekend, so you'll be glad for the opportunity to curl up with a good book.
In class, your assignment is to post an item to your Web blog in which you link to another page - you may choose the page - and briefly preview it. Write some copy to explain the link, in other words, so you'll get the practice putting a hypertext link in your copy. I'll post an example below.
Here's how I'd go about it (although you can vary the order if you like, anything that gets the job done). When I link, I do it like this:
1. Open one window to the blog and get into the "Create Posting" mode. Click on the "Edit Html" tag at upper right.I'll post a sample item below.
2. In another window, find a page you want to link to. Copy the address or URL (uniform resource locator) the address field at the top of the webpage.
3. Go to the first window and paste the address into the Create Field. I write the hyperlink tag (the "a href=" stuff between the angle brackets) around it, but you may want to copy-and-paste the tag in first and then the address. Whatever works for you.
4. Write a scintillating item around it introducing readers to the page you're linking to.
First, a headline. (You'll write yours in the title field.) I'll start with the head and go on to the sample item.
Wake up with a wisecrack
like folks do in Atlanta
When my family lived in a senior highrise in the suburbs of Atlanta, we'd get the Journal-Constitution every morning outside their apartment. And we'd do what readers in Atlanta always do.
We'd turn to page 2, and we'd read "The Vent."
The Vent is a daily collection of wisecracks sent in by readers. It's available on the AJC.com website, linked high up on the homepage sandwiched between "Celeb news" and Traffic. Which gives you a good idea of just how popular it is.
Sometimes, it's funny. Sometimes, it's a good barometer of what people in Georgia are thinking. Always, it's a nice time-waster as you start your day.
Some examples from today's vent:
- I avoid doing business with any company whose ad pops up at the beginning of a story I'm trying to read.
- Bonuses for Georgia lottery employees are an insult to all teachers, firemen, policemen and many other public servants who have gotten [unpaid] furlough days and never get bonuses.
- Obama, quit bowing to everyone else in the world! If you are that ashamed of the US, resign.
- I don't want to win the lottery. I just want to work there!
- ATTENTION MERCHANTS: If I walk in your store and see Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving, you just lost a customer.
- Headline: "Supreme Court won't Hear 'Redskins' Name Complaint." Of course, they're Redskins fans!
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