Web Design
 ENG 330

Part 1

September 14

Sept. 21

Today’s topic is more XHTML and a chance to work on your handcoded pages.

Please also read: Web Site Design Made Easy chapter 11 (tables). The Annotated Bibliography is due Sept. 28. HTML basic pages (described below) are due by e-mail with printed HTML code in class next week.

  • 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.html
    and send it as an e-mail attachment (beatty@lasalle.edu, or use the La Salle address book ("To" button in Outlook)). 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 HTML (see Gaskill p. 13):
    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. 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.
      <div class="footer">

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