What you'll learn?

  • Identify front-end and back-end Web design issues, and estimate download time for Web pages.
  • Create basic Web pages using an HTML text editor and a GUI Web page editor.
  • Incorporate lines, colors, graphic images and tiled background images into Web pages.
  • Create Web hyperlinks for text, images, local files and remote sites, and create and link client-side image maps.
  • Create HTML tables and frames, construct and test forms, and validate Web documents.
  • Structure Web documents with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
  • Describe the functionality of JavaScript, Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and the Document Object Model (DOM).
  • Explain the relationships among Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML).

Description

Web Page Authoring Fundamentals is designed to teach students Web page creation and other aspects of Web authoring. Students gain experience developing Web pages in a text editor and a graphical user interface (GUI) editor. Students also learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and study the basics of Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), JavaScript, Dynamic HTML (DHTML), and the Document Object Model (DOM). After completing this course, students will be able to create simple Web pages containing text, graphics, hyperlinks, tables, forms and frames.

Audience :

All professionals required to use the Internet in their daily job functions. Information in this course is required for all levels of specialization in the CIW program.

Topics :

Intro to Web Page Authoring

o  Creating Web Pages

o  Text Editors

o  Graphic User Interface (GUI) Editors

o  Web Page Accessibility

o  Front-End Issues

o  Back-End Issues

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

o  What Is HTML?

o  HTML Standards

o  Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

o  Web browsers and Standards

HTML Coding

o  Creating an HTML Page

o  Markup Tags

o  Document Structure Tags

o  Paragraph Formatting and Block-level Elements

o  Text-level Elements

o  Lists

o  Adding Hidden Comments

o  Good Coding Practice

HTML Horizontal Rules and Graphical Elements

o  Adding Horizontal Ruling Lines

o  Incorporating Images Into Pages

o  Special Characters

o  Specifying Colors in HTML

o  The Web-Safe Color Palette

o  Page Colors and Backgrounds

o  Specifying Font Information

HTML Hyperlinks

o  Understanding Links

o  Anchor Tag

o  Using Images as Links

o  Creating Internal Links

HTML Tables

o  Introduction to Tables

o  Table and Data Alignment Options

o  Changing Height and Width of Table Elements

o  Column and Row Spanning

Forms

o  Forms Overview

o  <FORM> Tag

o  Web Form Fields

HTML Image Techniques

o  Image Techniques

o  Image Maps

o  Defining a Client-side Image Map

o  Image Transparency

o  Interlacing Animated GIFs

HTML Frames

o  Introduction to Frames

o  <FRAMESET> and <FRAME> Tag

o  Frameset Document

o  <NOFRAMES> Tag

o  Targeting Frames with Hyperlinks

o  Specifying a Base Target

o  Borderless Frames

Graphical User Interface HTML Editors

o  Graphical User Interface Editors

o  Types of HTML GUI Editors

o  GUI Editor Functionality

o  Creating Web Pages in a GUI Editor

o  HTML Text Editors vs. GUI Editors

HTML Extensions

o  Extending HTML

o  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

o  JavaScript

o  Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

o  Document Object Model (DOM)

o  Extensible HTML (XHTML)

o  Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Prerequisities :

Recommended Knowledge :

Students must have completed Internet Fundamentals or have equivalent Internet knowledge.

Recommended Course(s) :

Category :

  • Web

Training Materials :

CIW Official Curriculum

Labs :

This course includes several labs to ensure you will gain the targeted skills and experience.

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