WA1065 HTML Programming Course Outline 1. Introduction: HTML and the Web What is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)? Why are Web documents published in HTML? 2. The Basic Structure of HTML Documents - Laying Out Text in HTML Heading text Paragraph text Comments Unordered (bulleted) and Ordered (numbered) lists Other useful tags Adding special characters to your pages Pre-exercise Instructions: How to edit HTML code? 3. Enhancing Your Tags: HTML Attributes Images and Backgrounds Image Attributes Background patterns Characteristics of the GIF graphic file format Characteristics of the JPEG graphic file format The relationship between graphic size and download time 4. Links to Other Pages, E-mail, and More When an http:// URL does not specify an HTML file Adding links to video, sound, downloadable files, and more Some Comments Inserting a link to another location on the same page Adding a link to this location from another document 5. Adding Color to Your Pages For what parts of my page can I change the color? How colors are specified Converting a base 10 color number to base 16 (hexadecimal) Controlling background, text, and link colors Changing the color of a piece of text A warning about colors 6. HTML Tables The table tags and their attributes Quick Table attribute guide A Note on Browser Compatibility 7. An Introduction to Frames Frames: Creating the main document The <FRAMESET> Tag The COLS and ROWS attributes of <FRAMESET> The <FRAME> tag Additional attributes of the <FRAME> tag Additional attributes of the <FRAMESET> tag Using nested framesets for complex layouts The <NOFRAMES> tag 8. Adding Links Between Frames The <BASE TARGET> tag Additional options for linked windows Magic target names Changing the color of frame borders 9. Client-Side Image Maps Building a client-side image map Embedding the map code Adding the USEMAP attribute to the <IMG> tag Using LiveImage to generate image map code 10. Review of HTML Tables The table tags and their attributes Quick Table attribute guide 11. Using Tables to Create a More Complex Design A step-by-step analysis of the changed code 12. Fluid Tables vs. Fixed-Width Tables Fluid Tables A fixed-width table 13. Nested Tables How to place a table within a table Complex Page Design with Nested Tables 14. The <META> Tag KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION <META> tags AUTHOR and GENERATOR <META> tags The <META> Refresh tag 15. The Future: XHTML HTML: Too Flexible? The Solution: XHTML How can I code to be XHTML Compliant?