Highlight the following text, then copy (ctrl-c) and paste (ctrl-v) it into a new Notepad window:
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THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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Create a new folder called "Gettysburg" on your disk. Save the Notepad file to your disk's new folder as "index.html" and view A:\Gettysburg\index.html in Internet Explorer.
In the Notepad file, surround the heading for the page ("THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS") in <h2> </h2> tags.
Break the remaining text up into 2-4 small sections, placing a <p> at the beginning of each paragraph, and a </p> tag at the end.
Save the Notepad file to your disk as "index.html" and view A:\index.html in Internet Explorer.
Insert links using the following notation:
Find the term "resting-place" in the address, and replace that text with this: <a href="http://www.nps.gov/getc/index.htm" target="_blank">resting-place</a>
Doing so will make the term "resting-place" a link to the website for the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
Somewhere on the page, cite the website from which the images come: The Library of Congress <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gadd/gadrft.html" target="_blank">Gettysburg Address Drafts</a>
Save the Notepad file to your disk as "index.html" and view A:\index.html in Internet Explorer.
Right click on the images below, save them to your disk, then insert them into the Notepad file using the code provided:
<img src="abe.jpg" alt="Only Known Photo of Lincoln at Gettysburg"><br />
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<img src="frstdrt1.jpg" alt="First Draft, Page One"><br />
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<img src="frstdrt2.jpg" alt="First Draft, Page Two"><br />
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Save the Notepad file to your disk as "index.html" and view A:\index.html in Internet Explorer.
Refer back to the HTML Tutorial for more help with customizing your web page.
This process should help you as you work toward a web essay that engages readers through text, images, and hyperlinks--an essay that makes use of the visual and hypertextual medium through which it is delivered.