The Mechanics of Web Page Design: Your First Web Page With Tables

http://polaris.umuc.edu/~Ferdinand/

Ferdinand's First Page

With graphics, lists, links, and tables.

Wow!

Here we summarize the parts of this HTML Mechanics module with a table.

Who Am I?

I'm a Longhorn bull born in Spain in the early summer of 1936. My name is Ferdinand.

I spent much of my youth in a beautiful pasture, sitting under a cork tree, smelling the flowers. Through a confrontation with a bumblebee and a subsequent misunderstanding, a group from Madrid selected me to participate in a sporting event. I however I was not suited to the task. As I left the arena several members of the opposing team, called Banderollos and Picadores I think, were seen banging their heads on the ground. Another fellow, called a Matador, fell on his own sword in frustration. Strange behavior I would say. At any rate I emigrated to America shortly thereafter and have been teaching ever since.

Hobbies and Interests

Computing, is an abiding interest for me. Next to smelling flowers of course.

Sites that provide information on how to write a Web page:

Let us format a table presentation:

Summary of the HTML Mechanics Module
ITEM	DESCRIPTION
Minimum Template	The must-have format
Enhanced Template	The should-have format
Your First Page	Contains your deathless prose
With Lists added	and a list
With Links	With the list made into links
With Graphics Added	Dressed up with neat graphics
And Tables	and a table
Frames	Now it is getting complex
Site Prep and Upload	Unix!

QED
Here is the code.

<table border=4 cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2>

<caption align=bottom>

<h3>Summary of the HTML Mechanics Module</h3>

</caption>

<tr><th>ITEM</th><th>DESCRIPTION</th></tr>

<tr><td>Minimum Template</td><td>The must-have format</td></tr>
<tr><td>Enhanced Template</td><td>The should-have format</td></tr>
<tr><td>Your First Page</td><td>That contains your deathless prose</td></tr>
<tr><td>With Lists added</td><td>and a list</td></tr>
<tr><td>With Links</td><td>With the list made into links</td></tr>
<tr><td>With Graphics Added</td><td>Dressed up with neat graphics</td></tr>
<tr><td>And Tables</td><td>and a table</td></tr>
<tr><td>Frames</td><td>Now it is getting complex</td></tr>
<tr><td>Site Prep and Upload</td><td>Unix!</td></tr>

</table>

So you noticed that the table includes links. Well, we have to leave something for the the student!

One other issue relative to using tables. Certainly table constructs are used to place tabulated listings on Web pages. However there is another very important use, the formatting the Web page itself. I have a sample of this use in the 'Art' module. No frames were used.

An excellent, step by step, tutorial on tables can be found at Joe Barta's site.