Observing Online and Print Journalism

We were given the task today to pick an article out of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and see how it compared to its online version. A daunting task indeed.

I lucked out with the story I picked. It sort of simplified the entire process. The reason being, is that both versions are the same. Identical. Even down to the caption on the picture.  The only difference I could find was a missing sub header on the print version, that was nowhere to be found on stltoday.com.

There was a difference in the titles of the two versions, with the print version sporting a mere two words. This is understandable seeing as how space is limited on a newspaper page.

Sidebars were present online, with multiple links to videos that related in someway to Game 2. On the opposite sidebar, you can find a link to posts on the website's forum, most popular/read stories, and a small calendar widget.

The fun of linking webpages

Our project for today was to create three html pages and link the three to one another. I wasn't completely sure how to begin, but my first step was to create one page with the appropriate DIV inside it, then save it three times to give me my three identical pages.

After I had all three created, I started on my links. I did something similar to the one we made in class which was the three links divided by a line. I linked the appropriate text to the appropriate page and was done with that step.

Next up, was my .css page. This confused me with the border and font specifications. I was not sure if I had input the correct code for the color and font size.

Finally after linking them all together, I think I have it right, or at least the majority. The color turned out correct, so that might mean I did it correctly after all.