Body Text Alignment Project

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Body Text Alignment Project
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Even the best websites need ongoing maintenance, editing, reformatting and repair over the course of time. This project is part of this ongoing process.

To begin, open Dreamweaver, and open each page of your personal website.

Examine the alignment used for the body text on each page. Body text refers to the paragraphs on your websites. In fact, the paragraph you are reading right now is body text. After you finish reading this page, choose one of the two acceptable alignment formats, and apply it to the body text on all of your pages.

For the purposes of this course, only two alignments are acceptable for body text. You may either left align your text, or justify your text. For practice, see if you can identify the alignment format in this paragraph.

It is not acceptable to center align your body text. It is also not acceptable to right align your body text.

Three examples follow written in Latin. Latin is used so you can concentrate on formatting instead of content. These examples illustrate the difference between the two acceptable alignment styles, and the two unacceptable alignment styles for body text.

Left Alignment (acceptable):

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse augue neque, hendrerit eu egestas ut, gravida id ante. Curabitur vitae nibh nibh, malesuada viverra ipsum. Nunc ac mi quis felis porttitor varius ut in diam. Nunc mi eros, vulputate at pharetra vel, scelerisque vel tortor.

Justified Alignment (acceptable):

Center Alignment (unacceptable):

Right Alignment (unacceptable):

Evaluation

I will look at the body text alignment on each of your pages. If there are paragraphs on every page and they consistently use one of the acceptable alignment formats for body text, you will earn a grade of 100. For every page that is missing a paragraph, you will loose ten points, and you will also have to go back and write the paragraphs. For every page that uses one of the unacceptable alignment formats for body text, you will loose ten points, and you will also have to go back and correct the alignment formatting. If you mix the two acceptable alignment formats for body text, you will loose 10 points, and you will also have to go back and correct the alignment formatting.

F.A.Q.

Q: I like center alignment. Why can’t I use it?
A: You are welcome to use center alignment for body text. You just can’t use it for any of the websites you create for this class.