Web Design
 ENG 330

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Today’s topic is MLA style, and a chance to work on your handcoded pages.

We will look at research for your bibliography, and we will also take a look at our library’s CARDS evaluation formula. You should know how to cite and evaluate on-line resources. You should be able to describe and find databases including Lexis-Nexis, First Search and ProQuest. And a site at U. Berkeley’s library's: Web evaluation site.
For more on MLA, look at the Web example here. The Annotated Bibliography is due Feb. 26. XHTML basic pages (described below) are due by e-mail next day.
  • Continue with the hand-coded Web pages, being careful of spelling, noting all the required elements. Name the XHTML file with your last name as in
    beatty.html
    and send all files as e-mail attachments (beatty@lasalle.edu, or use the La Salle address book ("To" button in Outlook)). No need to put it up on the Web, but that is an option this time.
    Check out these primers if you still need help:
    Some other things to note/review about XHTML (see HTML & CSS pp. 179-180):
    1. All opening tags e.g. <body> are closed with the tag plus a forward slash: </body>
    2. Never include attributes in the closing tag: it is </a> not </a href>
    3. Text inside the <title> </title> cannot be formatted
    4. It had become “tradition” to leave off some closing tags that strictly (XHTML) speaking should be there. Among those are </p>, </li>
    5. Similarly, it had become habit to leave off the ditto ("quotation marks") around values of an attribute. So to be professional (and XHTML-compliant, and standards-based), use them at all times, e.g.
      <div class="footer">

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