HTML4: Introduction (including XHTML and CSS)

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
[b]DAY ONE
Background[/b]
• Introduction to HTML
• Introduction to XHTML
• Introduction to XML

[b]Structuring a website[/b]
• The client/server relationship
• Understanding directories and how a site is organised
• Installing and running a simple Server
• Cross platform file names
• Cross platform directory names

[b]The minimal HTML document[/b]
• XHTML and HTML syntax
• Creating body text
• Creating titles
• Creating headings

[b]Adding metadata[/b]
• How search engines read websites
• Creating content tags
• Creating keyword tags

[b]Adding structure to the content[/b]
• Creating headings and sub headings
• Creating paragraphs
• Working with special characters
• Creating line breaks
• Creating horizontal rules

[b]Working with images[/b]
• Adding image links
• The GIF, JPEG and PNG formats
• Compression issues
• Alternative text, titles and descriptions for images

[b]Creating and working with lists[/b]
• Numbered (ordered) lists
• Unnumbered (unordered) lists
• Definition lists

[b]Linking to other documents[/b]
• Relative links vs Absolute links
• Working with URLs
• Anchors within documents

Suitable for
A comprehensive hands-on course designed to provide an in-depth introduction to web page coding and structure using HTML and XHTML.

Requirements
You need no previous experience to attend this course.