COURSE CALENDAR | WEEK 02 CLASS OUTLINE | Homework | Quiz
REVIEW....
- What are
Web Standards? "Web standards are intended to be a common base...a
foundation for the world wide web so that browsers and other software
understand the same basic vocabulary" -- Eric Meyer
- And the actual Web Standards are...
- Ten reasons to learn and use web standards
- The Weekly Standards (web standards sites in action and how they are developed)
- What is Accessibility? "Accessibility" is
used to describe how easy something is for everybody to use, regardless
of impairment or disability. Accessibility is a benefit of web standards.
- Why is Accessibility important to web designers?
- What is XHTML? Logical Structure, the Document Tree
- Understanding STRUCTURE vs. PRESENTATION and Semantic Markup
- Review XHTML: The Basic Rules and Syntax
- Review CSS: The Box Model, Element selectors
- Setting up your site in Dreamweaver
- XHTML tutorial: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
- CSS tutorial: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssbeginner/
- What did you learn today? Post a comment to the AD650 Learning Blog.
For next class:
CLIENT WORK
- Contact your client and ask them to fill out a Client Survey form.
- Create your own form by using these as a guide:
- Only offer services you are able to provide and make sure the client understands that this is a class project and you have a schedule to keep.
- Please ask them to return the form by next class meeting.
TECHNICAL PREPARATION
- Intermediate XHTML (divs): http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlintermediate/
- Intermediate CSS (class, id and nesting selectors): http://www.htmldog.com/guides/cssintermediate/