Web Development
DART 230
January 29
- XHTML-2 site of the day from:
Today’s topic is more XHTML and a chance to work on your handcoded pages. Xhtml basic pages (described below) are due on disk with printed XHTML code in class Tuesday.Your assignment is to follow class instructions to create two pages on a disk using Notepad as described on the handcoded assignment. Due Feb. 5.
- Continue with the hand-coded Web pages, being careful of spelling, noting all the required elements. Name the file with your last name as in
beatty.htmland give it to me on disk. No need to put it up on the Web.
Check out these primers if you still need help:
Some other things to note/review about XHTML:
- A University of Miami class
- Among many others, these are as good as the next: 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 </font> not </font size>
- 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: <font face="Arial" size="4" color="#333333">Hello</font>
- 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 professional (and XHTML-compliant), use them at all times, e.g.
<font size="3" color="#333333" face="Arial">
- Let me know if you still are having trouble with logins to the alpha server. Remember to check these HTML primers:
- The ex-Tar heel: Kathy’s tips
- 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