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Vital Signs
Case Study Style Guide: Technical Page Formatting This section describes
in detail the HTML code to use in formatting your case study. Many examples of code are
provided for reference, as well as links to and images of the Siegel House Case Study, which was
formatted using this code.
Page Formatting
The HTML code at the beginning and end of a page is dedicated to general page
formatting. Your case study page should begin and end with code as in this example.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>The Siegel House - Background: The Siegel House
Design</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0">
(header section)
(body section)
(footer section)
</BODY>
</HTML>
The <HTML> and </HTML> tags should be the first and last ones on your page.
They signal the beginning and end of the HTML code. Following the initial <HTML> tag
should go the <HEAD> and <TITLE> tags with their corresponding ending tags.
The text you place between the <TITLE> tags will be used by the browser as a title
for the window in which your page will be viewed. This title should closely match the
unique page title you will use in the header section. In this example, the text "The
Siegel House - Background: The Siegel House Design" is used in the <TITLE>
section and the text "Background: The Design of the Siegel House" is used as the
title for the page. Choose the text to place with the <TITLE> tags carefully because
this is what a user will see in the history list of their browser, as well as the text
used by the browser when creating a bookmark for the page.
The last general page formatting tag to use is <BODY BGCOLOR=#C0C0C0>. This begins
the main section of the HTML document and sets the background color of the page to a
neutral gray. The </BODY> tag at the end of the document completes this main section
of the document. Note that the <BODY> section, and the section this style guide
refers to as "body" are different. The <BODY> section contains the header,
body, and footer sections described in the Style Overview
and Explanations section above.
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