web template

Biology 202
Spring, 1999
available at http://serendipstudio.org/bb/neuro/neuro99/webprep.html

INFORMATION FOR WEB PROJECTS

To facilitate posting web projects, they will need to be turned in in an electronic form prepared for posting, as well as in hard copy. The material below is intended to make it as easy as possible to go from a standard word processing document (to be turned in as hard copy) to an HTML document ready for posting.

Step 1
Write your paper as you normally would, with a numbered list of web references (URL, and name of site) at the end, and with citations to that list shown in the text as numbers within parentheses. Print for hard copy. An example is shown below:

Information about Biology 202

Paul Grobstein
Biology 202 has a course home page (1), from which other resources related to the course can be reached. The course home page is located on Serendip, a World Wide Web server which provides additional resources in the areas of biology, neurobiology and behavior, and complex systems (2).
Among the available course resources on Serendip is a forum area (3), where students write weekly comments on material of the course. Each week's comments are moved to their own file, which can be reached by clicking on a topic list at the end of the course home page (1).

WWW Sources
1) http://serendipstudio.org/bb/neuro/neuro99; Biology 202 home page
2) http://serendipstudio.org; Serendip, the server home page.
3) http://serendipstudio.org/bb/neuro/neuro99/forum-neuro99.html; Biology 202 forum area

Step 2
Use the template shown below (updated 2 April 1999) to prepare a new word processing document with the needed HTML markup tags. The easiest way to do this is to copy the template in its entirety from your web browser and paste it into a new word processing document. Line breaks are ignored in HTML documents, so don't worry if the pasted form looks somewhat different from what you copied.

<html>
<head><title>YOUR TITLE</title></head>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff>
<a href="/bb/neuro/neuro99">Biology 202</a><br>
<a href="/bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/index.html"> 1999 Final Web Reports</a><br>
On <a href="/">Serendip</a><p>
<center><h2>YOUR TITLE </h2> <h3>YOUR NAME</h3></center>
YOUR TEXT. REMEMBER TO SEPARATE PARAGRAPHS WITH <P>. WEB REFERENCES GO IN A NUMBERED LIST AT THE END (SEE BELOW). TO CITE A WEB REFERENCE IN THE TEXT, USE THE FOLLOWING AT EACH NEEDED LOCATION: <a href="#YOUR REFERENCE NUMBER">(YOUR REFERENCE NUMBER)</a>.
<h3>WWW Sources</h3>
<a name="1">1)</a><a href="URL OF YOUR FIRST WEB REFERENCE">NAME OF YOUR FIRST WEB REFERENCE SITE</a>, ANY COMMENTS ABOUT IT (OPTIONAL) <p>
<a name="2">2)</a><a href="URL OF YOUR SECOND WEB REFERENCE">NAME OF YOUR SECOND WEB REFERENCE SITE</a>, ANY COMMENTS ABOUT IT (OPTIONAL) <p>
<a name="3">3)</a><a href="URL OF YOUR THIRD WEB REFERENCE">NAME OF YOUR THIRD WEB REFERENCE SITE</a>, ANY COMMENTS ABOUT IT (OPTIONAL) <p>
ETC (AS NECESSARY)
</body>

</html>

Step 3
You should now cut and paste from your original document (the one from which you make the hard copy), replacing necessary parts of the new HTML document (the capitalized, bold-faced parts) with appropriate parts of your hard copy document. Be sure to make needed changes for each place in the text where you make a citation with a number in parentheses, and for each item in your reference list. Also remember to put in <p> to separate paragraphs. The needed changes are described on the template. In addition to line breaks, empty lines long sequences of spaces are ignored in HTML documents, so you can add or remove these in any way you want to make your document easier to work with. For the example above, the result of cutting, pasting, and additionally modifying is shown below:

<html>
<head><title>Biology 202</title></head>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff>

<a href="/bb/neuro/neuro99">Biology 202</a><br>
<a href="/bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/index.html"> 1999 Final Web Reports</a><br> On <a href="/">Serendip</a><p>
<center><h2>BIOLOGY 202 </h2> <h3>Paul Grobstein</h3></center>
Biology 202 has a course home page <a href="#1">(1)</a>, from which other resources related to the course can be reached. The course home page is located on Serendip, a World Wide Web server which provides additional resources in the areas of biology, neurobiology and behavior, and complex systems <a href="#2">(2)</a>. <p>
Among the available course resources on Serendip is a forum area <a href="#3">3</a>, where students write weekly comments on material of the course. Each week's comments are moved to their own file, which can be reached by clicking on a topic list at the end of the course home page <a href="1">1</a>.
<p> <h3>WWW Sources</h3>
<a name="1">1)</a><a href="/bb/neuro/neuro99">Biology 202 home page</a> <p>
<a name="2">2)</a><a href="">Serendip</a>, the server home page. <p>
<a name="3">3)</a><a href="/bb/neuro/neuro99/forum-neuro99.html">Biology 202 forum area</a><p>
</body>

</html>

Step 4 Save your HTML document as "text only", naming it with your last name followed by .html (yourlastname.html). Send it to me as an attachment to an email message to pgrobste@brynmawr.edu (bring the hard copy to class). When posted, your HTML version should look and act like the example below:

Biology 202 Biology 202
1999 Final Web Reports
On Serendip

INFORMATION ABOUT BIOLOGY 202

Paul Grobstein
Biology 202 has a course home page (1), from which other resources related to the course can be reached. The course home page is located on Serendip, a World Wide Web server which provides additional resources in the areas of biology, neurobiology and behavior, and complex systems (2).
Among the available course resources on Serendip is a forum area (3), where students write weekly comments on material of the course. Each week's comments are moved to their own file, which can be reached by clicking on a topic list at the end of the course home page (1).

WWW Sources
1)Biology 202 home page
2)Serendip, the server home page.
3)Biology 202 forum area

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