Advanced HTML skills

Objectives

A one-day course for HTML authors, covering the new techniques which have come into use since 1996, such as frames, JavaScript, client-side imagemaps, cascaded stylesheets and Java. As in the two-day Introduction to Web publishing course, students work on a series of examples which build into a complete site as the day progresses. The course is available to users of both Macintosh and PC platforms.


Pre-requisites:

Ideal delegates to this course are Internet HTML authors with at least one site under their belts and real knowledge of HTML. Completion of Transmedia's two-day Introduction to Web publishing course is a distinct advantage.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Frames


· The purpose of frame sets
· Formatting issues
· Frameset navigation; in-built syntax and creator defined options
· Loading two frames at the same time
· Hidden frames


Advanced font and colour control


· Controlling font and colour within a document
· The marquee tag and stylesheets facility within MS Internet Explorer
· Stylesheets in Explorer


JavaScript


· The background to JavaScript and JScript
· Simple examples of JavaScript
· Using JavaScript to load two frames into one frameset
· Creating a simple site access control mechanism






Introduction to multimedia on the Web


· A review of the Transmedia

Multimedia for the Web

course
· Using Plug-Ins
· EMBED and OBJECT: preparing for multimedia
· Introduction to Java
· Serving and controlling a pre-written Java applet


Development strategies


· Encompassing future technologies while catering for old browsers
· The different capabilities of Netscape Navigator and MS Internet Explorer
· Commented JavaScripts
· Alternative content


Forms


· Creating Forms
· Using forms for navigation
· Basics of CGI Scripting
· Form validation


Stylesheets


· Conceptual framework
· Methods of applying stylesheets
· Styling text, images, tables and forms