Advanced Computers - Web Design

Messmer High School

Project 2 in the Unit 5 project list. For Project 2 in Unit five we want a Solar System table with two columns and six rows. In this table the words in the table will be links to web sites about the sun and planets. You may use the web site links you used in Unit four. You may be able to save some typing using Unit 5 Project 1 as a base for this project, but with Arachnophilia it might be easier to start over.

Here is a suggested sequence of steps that will help you write Project 2 from the Unit 5 assignments.

1. Review Mini-chapter 12 in the online textbook about Tables and Minichapter 4 about Links. Tables are one of the most important techniques used in building web sites. They are very flexible and after a while you will notice them everywhere. We will be placing links inside the table, which is a very common technique on pages that you have seen many times when surfing the web.

2. Create a new folder for this assignment in My Documents. Call it Week5P2. You will put everything you need for this project in this folder. Do not put anything else in this folder.

3. Make one blank HTML program. Call it planet_table_2.html. Include the html tags, the head tags, the body tags, and the title tags. Write the page so that inserting html code is easy. Use vertical alignment for the various opening and closing tags. You should use Arachnophilia for this. You might also copy the completed project from Week5p1 as a base for this project, though you will probably find it easier to start over.

4. Add the title as follows - Week5P2, a hyphen, and your first and last name.

5. Add the standard comments in the heading section, including your name, project title, date, and short description of the project.
6. Use the Table wizard in Arachnophilia to create a table with two columns and six rows. Set the border width equal to three, the cell padding equal to 0, and the cell spacing equal to 0. Include placeholder data by checking Placeholder Data box.
7. Turn on the background color on by checking the Color Background box. Set the background color to Blue by clicking on the Background button and selecting a blue color.
8. Turn on border color by clicking Color Border button. Set the Border Color to red by clicking the Border button and selecting a red color.
9. Turn on the title color by checking the Titlecolor First Row box. Set the title color to green by clicking on the Title button and selecting a green color
10. Bold the first row by checking the Bold First Row box..
11. In Row 1 Column 1 place the title - The Solor System
12. Begining in row 2, fill in the rest of the cells in  the table with the names of the Sun and the nine planets.
13. Use the href tags to make the name of every planet a link to a web site about that planet. You may use the same web sites as you used in the Unit four projects. You should have an href tag inside every cell in rows 2 through 6. Refer to your unit 4 projects for these tags. 
14. Test your program and see that it works correctly. Show your instructor the source code in the Arachnophilia online.
15. Save and print your source code. If you finish early help someone near to understand this project better.