html advanced

Duration: 2 Days

This course is designed for those already familiar with the basics of HTML or have coding experience with older versions of HTML. 

This course focuses on developing structured XHTML web pages while keeping presentation and function separate.

You will explore the practicalities of building sophisticated sites in a browser and platform independent manner, learn the advantages gained from a standards compliant approach and focus on working with style sheets to deliver layout and design. This is a two day hands-on course utilising a range of practical real-world exercises. The content of this course is constantly revised to take advantage of new web developments.

Course Outline

  • Standards compliant mark up
    • Overview of more advanced markup
    • HTML, XHTML and XML
    • Advantages of standards compliant mark up
    • Converting and moving to XHTML
    • Forms in XHTML
  • Structuring meta data
    • Keywords and descriptions
    • Search engine friendliness
    • Robots tag and robots.txt
  • Clean, structured pages
    • XHTML syntax, options and versions
    • Structuring XHTML pages
    • Removing presentational elements
    • Working with the DOCTYPE
    • Understanding natural language declarations
    • Building web forms and data tables
    • Working with lists
    • Special characters
  • Browsers and user agents
    • Standards compliant browsers
    • Overcoming older browser problems
    • Other user agents
    • Cross platform design
  • Overview of scripting languages
    • Client side scripting with JavaScript
    • Server side scripting
    • Dynamic HTML
    • Other technologies

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