HTML / XHTML - Creating Web Pages

Designed for users who have little or no experience with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). Topics included: versions of HTML, what is an HTML document, creating a web page - basic structure, headings, text & paragraphing lists and much more.

Course Outline

This course is designed for users who have little or no experience with Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), one of the languages used to create web pages on the internet. This course will cover the following topics: versions of HTML, what is an HTML document, creating a web page - basic structure, headings, text and paragraphing lists. Linking both URLs and to specific sections, adding images, adding tables, troubleshooting. Students will learn the different tags, create a web page of their own and post it to the internet.

Course Content Introduction

• The internet, the web, and HTML
• Open but not equal
• The browser wars
• The push for standards
• CSS and browser support
• XHTML vs. HTML: what should you use?
• How this book works
• What’s changed in the sixth edition
• The HTML VQS web site

Web Page Building Blocks

• Markup: elements, attributes, and values
• A web page’s text content
• Links, images, and other non-text content
• File names
• URL’s
• HTML vs. XHTML
• Versions, flavors, and DOCTYPE
• The default display of (X)HTML

Working with Web Page Files

• Designing your site
• Creating a new web page
• Saving your web page
• About Microsoft word and web pages
• Specifying a default or “home” page
• Editing web pages
• Organizing files
• Viewing your page in a browser
• The inspiration of others

Basic (X)HTML Structure

• Starting your web page
• Creating the foundation
• Declaring the encoding
• Creating a title
• Creating section headers
• Starting a new paragraph
• Naming elements
• Breaking up a page into divisions
• Creating inline spans
• Creating a line break
• Adding comments
• Labeling elements in a web page

Basic (X)HTML Formatting

• Making text bold or italic
• Changing the size of text
• Using a monospaced font
• Using preformatted text
• Quoting text
• Creating superscripts and subscripts
• Marking changed text
• Explaining abbreviations
• Centering elements on a page

Images

• About images for the web
• Getting images
• Choosing an image editor
• The save for web command
• Inserting images on a page
• Offering alternate text
• Specifying size for speedier viewing
• Scaling an image
• Making images smaller
• Making images float
• Stopping elements from wrapping
• Adding space around an image
• Aligning images
• Adding horizontal rules
• Adding an icon for your web site

Links

• Creating a link to another web page
• Creating anchors
• Linking to a specific anchor
• Targeting links to specific windows
• Setting the default target
• Creating other kinds of links
• Creating keyboard shortcuts for links
• Setting the tab order for links
• Using images to label links
• Linking thumbnails to images
• Dividing an image into clickable regions
• Creating a client-side image map

Lists

• Creating ordered and unordered lists
• Choosing your markers (bullets)
• Choosing where to start list numbering
• Using custom markers
• Controlling where markers hang
• Setting all list-style properties at once
• Creating definition lists
• Styling nested lists

Tables

• Mapping out your page
• Creating a simple table
• Adding a border
• Setting the width
• Centering a table
• Wrapping text around a table
• Combining tables
• Aligning a cell’s contents
• Changing the background
• Controlling the space
• Spanning a cell across columns and rows
• Dividing your table into column groups
• Dividing the table into horizontal sections
• Choosing which borders to display
• Controlling line breaks in a cell
• Speeding up table display

Testing and Debugging Web Pages

• Some debugging techniques
• Check the easy stuff first
• Checking the easy stuff: HTML
• Checking the easy stuff: XHTML
• Validating your code
• Testing your page
• When the browser displays the code
• When images don’t appear
• Differences from browser to browser
• Still stuck?

Publishing your Pages on the Web

• Finding a host for your site
• Getting your own domain name
• Transferring files to the server

Getting People to Visit

• About keywords
• Explicitly listing keywords
• Providing a description of your page
• Controlling other information
• Keeping visitors away
• Keeping pages from being archived
• Creating a site map manually
• Using google sitemaps
• Submitting your site to a search engine
• Improving your ranking by getting linked
• Writing pages that are easy to index
• Other techniques for publicizing your site

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Basic computer concepts/skills and knowledge of Windows

Certificates offered

Certificate of completion

Cancellation Policy

10 business days cancellation or full course fee will be charged

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Enjoyed the day

Reviewed by Brian F. 2012

   

Concise, clear and well presented. I would request this facilitator for any future courses based on my confidence is her ability to communicate effectively and based on her knowledge of the materials.

Reviewed by Angelique W. 2012

   

We were hoping there would be more about 'forms'. (Portfolio was interesting, but not really releveant to my needs). - Actually, my boss asked if we talked about Forms Manager, I said no, and then we couldn't decide if Forms Manager is something that was discontinued in X (from 9).

Reviewed by Linda S. 2012

   

Parking facilities at the UofA are incredibly expensive, for those who need to drive there. $40/day for parking was disappointing!

Reviewed by Grace B. 2012

   

Made sure you did everyting twice, was double checked by instructor.

Reviewed by Brenda K. 2012

   

Had never done Excel before, it was all greek to me. Maybe need to repeat work sheets twice. I will come back for repeat class.

Reviewed by Brenda K. 2012

   

Great course

Reviewed by Trevor H. 2011

   

Course instuctor did not hand out the manuals until end of the day. Therefore not able to write notes in for reference later on. - kinda silly.

Reviewed by Mike C. 2011

   

You shoudl have a Excel 3 class available

Reviewed by Brandy Z. 2011

   

Great training, had to meet the various needs from no experience to some with experience. Washrooms looked tired and need of improvement. Personally prefer an early start/early finish 8am to 3pm would be great

Reviewed by David S. 2011

   

Course materials were not handed out till the end of the course and may have been useful to follow along. Some of the example/course files were missing from my folder.

Reviewed by Craig B. 2011

   

The Instructor was very knowledgable on the subject. The class moved quickly. I think an additional day would have been nice.

Reviewed by Cheryl . 2011

   

Trainer was open to answering questions and provide information in a clear manner.

Reviewed by Maureen D. 2011

   

Well presented, hands on course! The instructor was extremely knowledgable and helpful!! I have already reccommended this course to my managers.

Reviewed by Kelly D. 2011

   

The trainer I had was great. She had a great personality that kept me interested. Awesome Job! Thank you

Reviewed by Lindsey G. 2011

   

The course was excellent and the instructor did a great job but why does everybody cut the time short. I think we should take a shorter lunch and get more class time instead of leaving a half of an hour early!

Reviewed by Darlene T. 2011

   

EXCELLENT instructor!!! Very patient ... customized the class to the needs of the students!

Reviewed by Jackie G. 2011

   

The only improvement I can suggest is focusing a bit more on the basics of Visio - more on Org & flow charts as opposed to so much time spent on designing rooms.

Reviewed by Karyn G. 2011

   

George was personable and easy to follow and work with.

Reviewed by Suzanne S. 2011

   

Sue is an awesome instructor!

Reviewed by Cathy P. 2011

   

The instructor was excellent. It was evident that several of us who were competent with Excel 2003 Level 1 should have probably taken Excel 2007 Level 1 again rather than Excel 2007 Level 2, but the instructor was very patient and managed to cover basics from Level I as well as Level 2.

Reviewed by Kim C. 2011

   

With myself being very green with this program I got very useful information that I can use daily.

Reviewed by Rick . 2011

   

One more hour would allow for more hands-on training.

Reviewed by Kerstin M. 2011

   

Good course. Friendly instructor. I found the speed of the course to be a little slow for me, however I understand that other attendees required more help/detail than I did. Overall, a good experience.

Reviewed by Jenna N. 2011