Practicing Web Basics

• Site design and basic layout
• Web development with an editor
• Text formatting and positioning
• Images, colors, and backgrounds
• Basic HTML tables
• Hyperlinks of all types

Advanced Table Layout and Formatting

• Table formatting attributes
• Table tags & attributes
• Cell spanning across rows and columns
• Building a table from scratch
• Using table building tools
• Table rules, frames, captions, and summaries
• Table body, headers, and footers

Nesting and Embedding Tables

• Nesting/embedding data in table cells
• Embedding lists in table cells
• Formatting embedded lists
• Nesting tables within tables
• Formatting nested tables

Window Layout with Frames

• What exactly are frames?
• Display multiple web pages in a browser window
• Navigation bars and frame configurations
• Anatomy of frames in code
• Combining and nesting framesets
• Creating borderless frames
• Supporting browsers that don't support frames

InterFrame Navigation

• Linking frames and navigation bar overview
• Frame names, titles, and targets
• Opening new browser windows
• Breaking out of frames

Inline Frames

• Creating scrollable areas of a web page
• Inline frame attributes & values
• Using and manipulating inline frames
• Targeting and linking inline frames

Web Form Basics

• Feedback, applications, and eCommerce
• HTTP requests and responses
• How data is passed from form to server
• The anatomy of a web form
• Methods, actions, and get vs. post
• Named form elements and sending data
• Submitting and resetting a web form

Working with Form Elements

• Input boxes and password boxes
• Checkboxes and radio buttons
• Drop-down select lists and large text areas
• Submit and reset buttons

Advanced Form Techniques

• Limiting data size and providing default entries
• Disabled and read-only elements
• Custom buttons and images as submit buttons
• Laying out a web form
• A look at what’s happening on the server

Web Forms and Accessibility

• Keyboard navigation on the World Wide Web
• Associating labels with form elements
• Controlling tab order and providing Alt key access
• Grouping with fieldsets and legends
• Designing and creating web form applications

ImageMaps

• Uses of ImageMaps on the web
• ImageMap anatomy: areas, shapes & coordinates
• Using ImageMaps as navigation tools

Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

• The origin of CSS and the web
• Separating content and structure from formatting
• Style rules, declarations, properties and values
• CSS text formatting (things HTML cannot do)
• Techniques for learning CSS technology

A Brief Introduction to JavaScript

• What is JavaScript and what can it do?
• The Document Object Model & playing with objects
• Changing the status bar and simple image rollovers