Creating the Wellesley Standard with HTML This document contains instructions on how to write the HTML for the requirements of the Wellesley Standard. You can write HTML in any simple text program such as BBedit on the Mac, or Notepad or Wordpad on the PC. The title is set between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags, using <TITLE> and </TITLE> It should be less than 64 characters in length. Each element should be on a separate line, as shown below. <HTML> If your title wraps around to another line, browsers may insert empty spaces into the title, or strange characters such as empty boxes or vertical lines. The
dogtag is generally set in a bulleted list, beneath a horizontal
rule. To create the Horizontal rule, the code is To
create the dogtag itself, you should create what is called an
'unordered list'. The tag to define the list is <UL> <LI>Webmaster
(webmaster@wellesley.edu) </UL> The dogtag should end up looking as it does below, more or less.
In order to make the email address a link, the format is: <A HREF="mailto:me@wellesley.edu">me@wellesley.edu</A> where me is
your email username. The
alt tag is placed in the actually calling of the image. This
is done within the For example, if we wanted text-browser users to see the words "horse picture" instead of "[IMAGE]" when viewing our file horse.gif, the HTML code would be:
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