During this week’s lecture, we were tasked with two exercises on HTML, one completed in class and one to be completed by ourselves. I wrote about the John Baskerville task in my previous blog post, but I wanted to expand on the History of Type task in a separate post, as we were to work on it individually.
History of Type
I started off with the raw, unedited text, which I then opened in Visual Studio Code. I could then begin adding HTML elements, to change the appearance of the document.
Firstly, I added the <head> elements to the top of the document.
Next, I added <body> to show that I was beginning the main body of text. I then added headers to the titles, making them different levels of hierarchy.
I then added the first section to the document, and separated the blocks of text using <p> to show paragraphs. I repeated this for the rest of the sections of the piece. I also added <b></b> to some areas of text to make them stand out.
The link to the finished document on my GitHub can be found here.