Web Development
DART 230
February 1
Today’s topic is more XHTML and a chance to work on your handcoded pages.Your assignment is to follow class instructions to create two pages using TextEdit as described on the handcoded assignment.
- Continue with the hand-coded Web pages, being careful of spelling, noting all the required elements. E-mail me the files—ZIP is fine. No need to put it up on the Web.
Check out these primers if you still need help:
Things to note/review about XHTML:
- Among many others, these are as good as the next: HTMLDog, The html primer and the How Stuff Works page.
- All closing tags e.g. <body> are closed with the tag plus a forward slash: </body>
- Never include attributes in the closing tag: it is </a> not </a href>
- Text inside the <title> </title> cannot be formatted
- If you use more than one attribute within a given tag you can close them all with one ending tag if that suits your design intent: <div id="fred" title="fred">Hello</div>
- It had become “tradition” to leave off some closing tags that strictly (XHTML) speaking should be there. Among those are </p>, </li>
- Similarly, it had become habit to leave off the ditto ("quotation marks") around values of an attribute. That will not cause problems if the value is a single word such as color=red or a number such as size=4. You must use " " for alt text, src= href= and any value that has more than one word/number. So to be XHTML-compliant, use them at all times, e.g.
<hr size="3" noshade="noshade" />
- Let me know if you still are having trouble with logins to the alpha server.
- Finally, for future reference try The HTML Writers Guild site, and the official W3C site
For CSS-only coding, look at the tutorial from the Academic Technology Network at UNC .
- Site maintained by John Beatty