Poem Exercise

After choosing a poem on bartelby.com, I decided to play around with different features of a table to put the poem in order. I made the actual poem separate from writer and title information with the use of rows and cells. I also added a background image, which I tried to match the color of for the poem's information text. Then I picked a color that would compliment it well for a background. I wanted to choose another color for the actual poem, and decided to center the table to make things look nice. I made all of the font Georgia, and added some spacing/border around the poem's cell to add to the overall appearance. I didn't have too much trouble with it, other than adding an image. I tried playing around with two different techniques on how to add a background image, and chose one that I liked the best to use. (The other way was to add it in the body tag as background). I didn't have a hard time trying to validate things either this time.

Something that I had picked up from the Textile site provided by the assignment was a superscript, which I hadn't known was available through HTML. I also wanted to use the blockquote, but afterwards decided that things looked better centered (while still keeping the blockquote). Overall, these new HTML techniques were simple to figure out and use.

My site can be viewed at Week 4: Poem or there is a link to it from my homepage.

I also created a new one, including more CSS, which can be viewed at New Poem. With this one, I added the image as the back of the actual poem, and took out the tables from the previous example. I also tried to play around with some different techniques of padding and such. Both sites are almost the same, except for one has a table and the other uses more CSS. If you go to both, you can see what kind of a difference there is.