Introduction to Archaeology

Anthro 304 / ARY 301 Spring 1997
Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
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Lecture 4: HTML basics

1. Get a Place to Publish

  1. setting up your own place to publish -- OPTIONS -- get on the UTS system...
  2. There are a lot of advantages to this, for instance you can publish things besides what you must do for this class.
  3. It costs about 2 cents / day.

2. Get the tools to write in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

  1. If you use Microsoft Word, get the Internet Assistant. And read about how it allows your word processor to insert HTML codes.
  2. If you use Wordperfect, HTML support is built into more recent versions, and if necessary you can download the Internet Publisher from these directories.
  3. You can also write a document with your word processor, save it in "rich text format" (RTF), and then use a translator.
  4. There are also lots of good HTML editors around for both Macs and PC. I like a shareware Mac editor called Pagespinner that can be downloaded. You can also buy Adobe's Pagemill from the Microcenter.
  5. Or, you can just use simpletext. The HTML codes you need to write your class assignments are not very complex.
  6. what does HTML look like?

The main thing is this: the message is more important than the medium. Content is more important than formatting.

3. Learning HTML

    There are many good primers for beginning to learn HTML. Here are several of them:
  1. UT's LEARN WEB pages provide a lot of good advice.
  2. NCSA helped make the web, and their Beginner's Guide to HTML is a good resource.
  3. Here's the beginning of a step-by-step approach suggested by Pat, and a lot of in-depth information from the same source.

  4. The best thing to do is just get started.
  5. Also, learn from what you see on the web (view document source). Keep a collection of bookmarks to pages you like.

4. Learning some good habits from the start

  1. Read the Publishing Guidelines provided by TeamWeb. They're great.

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