Chapter 1 Textbook Exercises

Due date: Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm

Points value: 10 points

It’s time to start working through the exercises in Head First HTML and CSS. After reading the introduction, you can move on to Chapter 1.

The actual tutorial starts on page 12 of Chapter 1 (but you need to read the whole chapter!). For Chapter 1, you won't need any of the Head First downloaded files. You will create the folder and files on your own. (Remember to read my instructions on how to organize your chapter files.)

Pages 12–13 for Mac users and pages 14–15 for Windows users are about setting up your text editor to use plain language. You can tell the language of a file by the file extension. For example, .txt files are plain text files, and .html files are HTML files.

If the text editor in the textbook is different from the one you're using in class, the instructions will be different as well. For Notepad++ users, new files should automatically save as plain text files. You can change the language of the file to HTML or CSS by going to the "Language" menu and selecting "HTML" or "CSS."

After you have finished with the exercises in Chapter 1, you can move on to Chapter 2.