First Text Encoding Assignment

Open the (X)HTML Tutorial. Read the following sections:

  • Standards and Best Practices
  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • The Semantic Web
  • Cascading Stylesheets
  • Styling Text

Now choose one of the following images of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18:


Sonnet

Source: Shakespeare’s English


Sonnet

Source: How to Write a Sonnet

Copy the text you see in the image into a web page. Your final product should do the following:

  1. Contain a complete text of the sonnet.
  2. Format the text in such a way that it is clear what editorial interventions (interpretations or aids for readers) contribute to the meaning of the complete digital text you have produced.
  3. Contain ways of representing the text or interpretations of the text are enabled by creation of the text in HTML, rather than print.
  4. Have a paragraph below the text discussing what you would like to do for items 2 and 3 above but do not yet have the knowledge to accomplish.

Save the web page and bring it with you to class. If you have a laptop, you may save it on your hard drive. If you will be using a lab computer, you may save it on a flash drive or e-mail it to yourself and then download it when you get to campus.

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