Assignment #2: Build Your First Website

Overview

This assignment will teach you how to clone items from a repository, use a text editor, make changes in the editor, save them, commit changes to your repository, sync it, then publish it online. At the end of the assignment, you'll have a page hosted on Github Pages.

Due date

This is due by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2015.

Points possible

25

You must include: 

• your name and contact information (email address is enough, but feel free to add social media) 
• a joke. Yes, a joke. Keep it clean. 
• an image of yourself that is a link to your email address 
• a title for your page (must not be an untitled document) 
• must include navigation in an unordered list (this could be something like links to the blog, your assignments, journalism sites, etc.) 
• links to two other pages — one within your site and one outside your site (the other page within your site can be blank)
• must be in XHTML Transitional (hint, use the template provided)
• your code must validate

Grading:

• All required content there (10 points)
• Coded correctly — links work, using appropriate tags, using XHTML, has page title (10 points)
• Code validates (5 points)

Send your link from Github Pages to your section instructor via DM on Slack.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. 👍