Objectives
- Complete the Getting Down with XHTML tutorial
- Create a personal webpage
- Express knowledge of basic XHTML such as: headings, lists, tags, tables, links, images, and CSS
Competencies
- 6670-059 Investigate design elements of professional Web sites
- 6670-060 Analyze the navigation of a Web site for ease of use
- 6670-061 Create a Web page
- 6670-062 Investigate posting/publishing a Web site
Materials / Resources
- Maddog Account
Proceedure
- Point your web browser to http://ibiblio.org/obp/tutorials/getDown/xhtml/index.php. SSH into maddog and create a new directory named "public_html". You will be doing all of your work for this lesson in that directory.
- Go through each of the lessons in Getting Down with XHTML. Read over the content on each page and then complete the excercises at the bottom. If there is a question that asks "What happens when ..." or "why do you think ...", you should think about them and discuss them with your partner. You can even write down your answers onto the webpages that you're creating (either in the body or in comments). However, you will not be graded on right or wrong answers to those questions.
- For those of you that finish ahead of others, pick one of the following extensions to complete (not completing one of the extensions if you have finished early will result in a deduction of points fromt he lesson grade):
- Copy Cat: This is a test to see how well you can take a layout of a webpage and actually implement it into a webpage you make on your own. This webpage will include all of the elements you learned in the Getting Down with XHTML lessons. Here is the layout that you should copy. At the end of this lesson we will show you the actual code to the layout to see how closely your created code matches with its.
- Employee: You are a web designer hired by a group to build a webpage that represents the group. The group can be a club you're in, your favorite sports team, or any activity you participate in outside of school (you should know at leat a little about the group you select in order to develop the webpage). The webpage you create should implement all of the elements you learned from the Getting Down with XHTML lessons.
Evaluation
| Component | Points |
|---|---|
| Completion of Activities | /4 |
| Show you can make a webpage | /3 |
| Show you understand all the elements laid out in Getting Down with XHTML | /3 |
| Total | /10 |