Homework

Add some meat to your about me site. We will use this to test out the presentation capabilities of CSS over the next month. It is likely that the items marked optional will eventually be required. If you see a way to substitute different content with similar structural features for one or more of the items below, go ahead. But, be prepared to explain the similarity. (If we end up needing a structural feature you have overlooked, you will have to improvise later on.)

1. Create a list of your favorite things (in your index.html page).

   • Include a sub-list with some favorite quotations.
   • Include a link to another page with a list of your favorite foods. For at least one favorite food, create a link to a page with its recipe. (Optional) Use the pattern on page 267 to encode these recipes as an XML <recipe> documents.
   • (Optional) Include some thumbnail images that link to pages containing pictures.

2. Create (in your index.html page) a list of the classes you are currently taking. Include the name and number of the class as the label of a link to its description in the Lehman Undergraduate Bulletin. Include the days and times of the class and the name of the instructor.

3. Create a Credo paragraph summarizing your core beliefs. Alternatively, state a motto or quotation you find inspiring or ironic.

4. Do something creative with one (or more) <:blockquote>s. Include several block elements within it. (Try to use some different types of block elements as well.)

5. (Optional) Include a piece of poetry somewhere on your site.

6. (Optional) Create a page for a fictitious person. Link to it from your main index.html page. Your fictitious person page should include:

   1. One or more paragraphs describing the person's life.

   2. A family tree made from a definition list (<dl>) with definition terms (<dt>) for a mother and a father. The definition description (<dd>) for each parent should contain a paragraph describing the parent and an embedded definition list for his or her parents. Include at least one set of great grandparents.

   3. A disclaimer paragraph stating that this person does not exist and any similarity to a real person is purely coincidental.