Website Design Using W3C Web Standards

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Most business-people recognise the commercial importance of the Internet, but few realize how easy it is to learn the skills required to produce a basic Web presence.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Web
  • Design

Course programme

Overview of HTML

  • Brief history of HTML and XHTML
  • How the web works — clients and servers
  • Browsers and rendering

The Basics of HTML

  • Hierarchical structure: elements (tags) and text
  • Basic XHTML document structure
  • Paragraphs
  • Whitespace and line breaks in XHTML
  • Headings
  • Phrase mark-up in XHTML
  • Hypertext links
  • Embedded images
  • Lists
  • Preformatted text
  • Special characters in XHTML
  • XHTML and Semantic markup

Simple design customisation with CSS

  • Relationship between XHTML/HTML and CSS
  • Linking to a stylesheet in a separate file
  • Examples of common customisations

Images

  • Bitmapped images
  • Types of image: GIF, JPEG, PNG
  • Image type tradeoffs
  • Creating images

Tables

  • Using tables for tabular data
  • Abusing tables for layout in XHTML
  • Basic table structure
  • Cells that span rows or columns
  • Cell alignment
  • Styling table cells

More CSS

  • The box formatting model
  • Borders
  • Margins and padding
  • Collapsing margins
  • Formatting edges differently
  • Background colours and background images
  • Selectors
  • Multiple selections
  • Classes <div> and <span>
  • Descendant selectors
  • Text appearance
  • Typefaces
  • Font sizes
  • Other font properties
  • Leading
  • Text alignment and justification

XHTML

  • What is XML?
  • Relationship between HTML and XHTML
  • Why use XHTML?
  • Changes in the document prologue
  • Changes in element tags
  • Handling empty elements

HTML and Scripting

  • Server-side scripting: forms
  • XHTML Form elements
  • Client-side scripting
  • JavaScript
  • Graceful degradation
  • Examples

Embedding Multimedia

  • Image maps
  • Embedding flash movies
  • Graceful degradation

Website Design Using W3C Web Standards

Price on request