Greetings! This is the second assignment from the About.com HTML 101 course.
At this point I'm supposed to know a little bit about formatting text, so you'll see paragraphs have been added in & there is some use of bold and italicized text. Although the underline tag was mentioned in th WebTech HTML 101 course, it doesn't seem to be included in the About.com course. Thus, you won't find any underlining on this page. The course did, however, address nesting of tags. So I can show you text that is both bold and italicized.
I'm still not supposed to know how to add colour, change the font, or use a background image at this point. Please bear with me; I'm sure these will be added as the course progresses. And since I'm not supposed to know how to put in hyperlinks, you'll have to excuse me for not allowing you any way to contact me or to navigate through my site from this particular page. Please use your browser's back button. You'll find navigation links and contact information on my home page. Thank you for your understanding.
One thing I'm learning this week is to indent text using the BLOCKQUOTE element. This paragraph should be indented when you view it. Depending on your browser, it may also appear in italics. You'll notice the text is also set apart from the rest of this page by the horizontal rules (in two different styles,) the lines above and below this paragraph.
Further to the adding of indentations and rulings, the PRE tag for preformatted text was introduced in this lesson. It means the browser
renders
all
text
as
I
type
it -
spaces,
returns,
and
all!
Usually, extra spaces and hard or soft returns are ignored in HTML. You have to use the BR tag to force a hard return and the   tag to add in extra whitespace across a line.
I've added in a width to keep the lines from getting too long.
But as per the note in the lesson, most browsers ignore the width.
My browser (IE5.5) does. How about yours?
Well, I'm getting a little more used to navigating back & forth between the emails & various pages on the web site. I do find my computer freezes up a lot when I visit this site, though. It's a real pain! I have to cold boot most of the time, because even the three finger salute & the reset button are useless when this happens.
I thought it had something to do with the new ad/pop-up blocking software that I recently installed on this computer. So I disabled them both. And I am still having a really tough time getting the computer to behave when I visit the About.com lessons at the web site. I've had to reboot 1-2 times per lesson so far! That's a definite minus for the course, even though I am appreciating the greater depth & range of topics.
And if you are doing the lessons as well, did you notice on the first page of lesson three (on the web site) it says last lesson covered paragraphs and tables? Where was I when tables were discussed? I looked at the class outline in the email again, just to be sure. Nope! No mention of tables. That's something that could definitely confuse a few people.... That, or, I'm missing something, somewhere. Who knows?
OK, off to get lesson 4! Again, I'm not supposed to know how to use links. Please use your back key. Thank you!
Brightest blessings,
Willow
March 20, 2002