Summary

This course will cover the core principles of developing standards compliant web pages. You'll learn how to define your page structure and content in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how to add style to your page using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Questions we'll cover: How is a webpage constructed? What are web standards? What are the basic tools required to build a simple web site? How can I fix mistakes in my website code? How do I make my site visible on the web? Participants will create simple websites (6-8 pages) containing text, images and hypertext links and can use this as a foundation for more advanced skills they can continue to develop in the School of Webcraft. Course participants will learn about the importance of open web standards, will test their code on different browsers and will validate their code to guarantee it conforms to web standards. Participants will also document techniques and code using a wiki - this will be used as a learning resource for future courses. Please Note: only open web technologies will discussed during this course - proprietary formats such as Flash are not taught in the School of Webcraft. The initial meeting for the group will take place on the video channel Tokbox (http://www.tokbox.com) and communication will take place via mailing list and on a wiki. Participants will be able to communicate with the course organiser via Skype - the use of Skype between participants is also encouraged.