Homework 3: HTML and CSS Exercise

1.Objectives
• Become familiar with HTML and CSS technologies
• Learn how to imitate a web page
2.Description
You should be able to compose documents directly in HTML and
CSS. This is very helpful as it is often necessary to modify existing
documents. Also, when writing server-side scripts one must generate
HTML.
• In this assignment you are given an image of a web page. Your
task is to reproduce the page as closely as possible, writing
HTML and CSS directly, that is without using anything more
than a text editor. The web page to be imitated can be found
here.
• Important Note: use of CSS is required
• You will need five png images to help you complete the web
page: side_bottom.png, side_main.png, side_top.png,
header.png and footer.png.
• Please note that if you view the PNG image of the sample web
page in a browser, some browsers will automatically resize the
image to fit within the browser window.
• The page contains a menu on the left and a menu at the bottom
of the page. In the left menu there are six (6) active links
labeled “Home”, “Reviews”, “Deals”, “Follow Us”, “Tip Us”
and “Contact Us”. The same links are duplicated across the
footer of the page, in a slightly smaller font, for a total of 12
links.
• On the page you are going to build, the active links should be
made to point to the same page, say X.html at your website.
The page X.html should be divided into six parts, each
separated by a horizontal line. Each part will begin with a
paragraph tag that looks like this
<p id=”Home”
This is the start of X.html which corresponds to the “Home”
link.
• You are to construct the twelve (12) links so that when a person
clicks on a link, (e.g. they click on “Home”) the page X.html is
displayed and the section of X.html that has the corresponding
name as the name of the link, is placed at the top, (i.e. the page
scrolls up).
• To test your hw#3, please view your web page using Firefox.
Resize your browser window to the same size as the PNG image
and then see if you have used the correct font, color and size,
and if the position of text is correct.
•Important Note: The www-scf.usc.edu web server automatically
places a message at the bottom of every HTML page. The
message begins with “USC does not screen or control the
content . . . “ Due to this appended message, the HTML will get
misaligned. To avoid this message you can add a <noscript tag
immediately in front of the </body tag or click on the
Announcements page to see more suggestions.
3.Submission
You are required to submit your source code electronically to the
csci571 account so that it can be graded and compared to all other
student’s code via the MOSS code comparison tool. To submit your
file electronically, enter the following command from your UNIX
prompt:
$ submit –user csci571 –tag hw3 file1.html file2.html
style.css
You must link this homework to your class homework page so that
the graders can go to your website and grade your homework.