XHTML Programming Part 1: Fundamentals

Audience

The intended audience for this course includes Technical Managers Help Desk/Support Application Developers System Analysts Software Engineers and Web Developers. Students are expected to have an understanding of basic Internet/Intranet and Website concepts.

Objective

• Identify the basics of the World Wide Web (WWW) and Markup languages.
• Identify the basics of XHTML 1.1.
• Identify the code used to format XHTML documents and the code used to create lists.
• Identify the code used to link and embed objects in XHTML.
• Identify the code used to add and format images.
• Identify the code used to add animation audio and video files to an XHTML document.
• Identify the code used to create and format forms tables and frames.
• Identify CSS concepts.
• Identify how to apply styles to the elements of an XHTML document.

Topics Include

Unit 1: World Wide Web and Markup Languages

• Match the components of the WWW with the situations in which they are used.
• Identify the sequence of steps involved in processing an HTTP request.
• Match the markup languages with the situations in which they are used.
• Identify the code to create an HTML document by using basic HTML tags.
• Sequence the steps followed by a Web browser to parse an HTML document.

Unit 2: XHTML

• Match the types of DTDs with the situations in which they are used.
• Identify the benefits of modularization in XHTML.
• Identify the code that conforms to the rules for creating an XHTML document.
• Convert an HTML document into an XHTML document by using TidyGUI.
• Identify the set of logical inline markup tags that are used to format an XHTML document.
• Identify the code that uses appropriate physical inline markup tags to format an XHTML document.
• Identify the code that uses appropriate block markup tags to format an XHTML document.
• Identify the code that uses special markup tags to format an XHTML document.
• Identify the code used to create different types of lists in an XHTML document.
• Match the different URL schemes with the situations in which they are used.
• Match the code used for creating links with the appropriate situations.
• Identify the code used to embed an object in an XHTML document.

Unit 3: Images and Multimedia

• Match the types of images with the situations in which they are used.
• Identify the code used to add an image to a Web page.
• Identify the code used to create an image map.
• Identify the code used to add animated text and images to a Web page.
• Identify the code used to add inline audio and video files to a Web page.
• Identify the code used to add external audio and video files to a Web page.

Unit 4: Forms Tables and Frames

• Identify the code used to add text elements to a form.
• Identify the code used to add option elements to a form.
• Identify the code used to add button elements to a form.
• Identify the code used to add selection lists to a form.
• Identify the code used to create a table on a Web page.
• Complete the code used to format a table by identifying the correct code segment.
• Identify the code that uses a table to create the layout of a Web page.
• Identify the code used to create frames on a Web page.
• Identify the code used to format frames.
• Identify the code used to create nested frames.
• Identify the code used to target data to a frame.

Unit 5: CSS

• Identify the advantages of using style sheets.
• Match the types of style sheets with the situations in which they are used.
• Identify the types of style selectors.
• Match the style classes with the situations in which they can be used.
• Identify the code that uses the appropriate media rule.
• Identify the code used to attach rules to XHTML documents.
• Identify the position of elements on a Web page.
• Identify the code used to apply styles to text.
• Identify the code used to apply styles to images.
• Identify the code used to apply styles to tables.
• Identify the code used to apply styles to hyperlinks.

Duration

7

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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