William P. Craft

This Unit:

Reading Assignment:

Read Chapter Seven closely. Once again, there is lots of new "theory" in this chapter, but don't rush through it. It's all very important information.

This chapter in the textbook brings us all the way to XHTML Strict. From now on, that's the only language specification we will use in this course.

Also, please remember that from now on in this course, every page you submit to me must be W3C checked and have the "hot" link at the bottom of the page. On the bright side, your code should all be perfect when you submit it!

Here is the code you need one more time:

<p><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">XHTML</a> | <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">CSS</a></p>

Discussion:

None this unit.

Quiz:

Take the quiz.

Assignment:

Create a webpage with the following characteristics: (See page 268)

  1. At least one page (more is OK, but don't go nuts).
  2. Uses the XHTML 1.0 strict DOCTYPE.
  3. Has xmlns, lang, and xml:lang attributes in the <html> opening tag.
  4. The <html> tag must be the first tag after the DOCTYPE and the </html> closing tag must be the last tag in the document.
  5. All element names must be written with lowercase letters.
  6. All opening tags must have closing tags. Or, if an element is empty, the tag must end with a space and then />.
  7. All attribute values must be surrounded by double quotes and must have values.
  8. Must not use & in the content of your HTML. & is for starting entities, so use &amp; instead. Also, convert any other special characters to entities.
  9. Has a <meta> tag to specify UTF-8 (see p. 268)
  10. Has at least two pictures with appropriate alt attributes in the <img> elements (see p. 237)
  11. Has <h1>, <h2> and <p> elements.
  12. Has an Ordered List <ol> with an Unordered List <ul>nested inside it. (see p. 108 look at the code closely!)
    • Here is an example of a nested list.
    • This nested list is unordered.
  13. Use your creativity to pick the topic, images, and text of the web page. However, adult/porno is not appropriate.
  14. Has passed the W3C Validator at the XHTML 1.0 Strict level and has the working W3C XHTML and CSS links at the bottom of the page. (Yes, I will click them <g>.)

Post your page on your website and send me the exact address of the page in the comments section of the assignment on WebCT.

Here is a webpage that lists lots of sites with "public domain" images. You may find this listing useful if you are looking for images you can legally use without paying anybody a royalty. Of course you can always use your own pictures for any project you do.

The due date for the Quiz and the Assignment is listed on the homepage for the course.

...Bill