XHTML: Authoring and Design Techniques Study Guide

0-619-20263-7 © 2005 Publish date: October 6, 2004 158 pages

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Now that you have HTML and CSS experience, it's time to learn more advanced web creation techniques. One of the best computer training books for this is the XHTML Authoring and Design Techniques study guide. This course is a self-paced course that will give you the skills and knowledge you need in order to develop standards-compliant Internet web pages for greater efficiency, forward-compatibility, and accessibility.

The XHTML Authoring and Design Techniques courseware lets you study at your own pace and on your own time schedule. If you wish to work through by studying a unit per day or by studying a unit per week, it's up to you. With five comprehensive units, you can complete your studies in the amount of time of your choosing. Each unit contains activities that you can put to use right away in the creation of your web pages.

Section reviews are in place to reinforce what you've learned and as a refresher when you've taken a break for a few days. You can easily pick up where you left off and continue your studies. After completing the XHTML Authoring and Design Techniques courseware, use the manual as reference material to assist you in the creation of web pages using these techniques.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces XHTML

• An overview of XHTML
• XHTML DTDs
• How to convert HTML to XHTML

Unit 2 covers structured and descriptive markup

• Well-structured documents
• Customized structures
• Classes

Unit 3 discusses markup and style techniques

• Techniques for promoting efficiency
• Box styles
• Text styles and techniques

Unit 4 covers images, links, and Flash

• Image techniques
• Link techniques
• Using Flash in XHTML documents

Unit 5 talks about advanced tables

• Data table design and structures
• Scrollable tables