Here below are the results of the assignment to make three separate but linked webpages using HTML. The content of each page is a line of the haiku we selected. (Mine, in case you’ve forgotten, is In A Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound.)

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Not terrible? Not as good as I’d hoped. But the first poem you write in a new language probably won’t amount to much.

Here below is the code.

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I kept it simple, as befits my skill level, and did my best not to borrow any code from anywhere. It came out okay, I guess: the links all work, which of course is the real point of the HT in HTML, and I feel pretty good about the way the layout looks the more I look at all three pages together.

Lessons Learned

• HTML is tricky! It’s good for putting text onto a page but it’s woefully inadequate at making things look a certain way. The same goes for CSS, which inexplicably requires one to write all kinds of arcane code to get something approximately vertically centered.
• For those of us out there who never bought into the idea that all the REAL CREATIVE TYPES use Apple computers, there’s a neat new code writer app for Windows 10 called–appropriately enough–Code Writer. It’s somewhat less rudimentary than using WordPad or whatever they call the raw text editor in the Apple OS but it won’t correct your mistakes for you or alert you when you’ve written wonky code.