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HTML: LISTS & DOWNLOAD LINKS

Lists are floating somewhere between formatting and special characters. If you want to make a list with bullets, you would use the <ul></ul> tag, where "ul" stands for "unstructured list". Eash item on the list takes its own tag, <li></li>, for, you guessed it, "list item." Look at this list with the code next to it :

  • Item one.
  • Item two.
  • Item three.
 <ul>
<li>Item one.</li>
<li>Item two.</li>
<li>Item three.</li>
</ul>

If you want to make an "ordered list" (or numbered list) the code would be the same, except the tag would be <ol></ol>:

  1. Item one.
  2. Item two.
  3. Item three.
 <ol>
<li>Item one.</li>
<li>Item two.</li>
<li>Item three.</li>
</ol>

 

HTML: CREATING LINKS FOR DOWNLOAD

This is so simple: the code for creating progressive downloads of audio or video is the same as those going from page to page. Look at the download links on the home page of this eportfolio site: the code looks like this:

<a href="http://www.dreamhand.net/depts/eportfolio/mp3/creed_leadon.mp3"> &#8226; MP3 Link: Download Syrupy Piano Music</a><br />

<a href="http://www.dreamhand.net/depts/eportfolio/video/krelldeath.mov">&#8226; QuickTime Link: Download Mac Getting Waxed</a>

These have absolute URLs that lead to .mp3 and .mov files in folders called "mp3" and "video", respectively. User clicking on the links downloads the files. NOTE: look at &#8226 -- that is the "special character" code for a bullet: "•"