Using CSS for Design Lab 1
XHTML Practice

This lab is for practice and will be graded on a completed/not-completed basis.

Lab Guidelines

• Use (and know) the XHTML Basic Template found on COIN 65 Resources page. Be sure to use the XHTML 1.0 Strict Doctype.
• Validate your work using an HTML validator - see the Resources page
• Put any images into a sub-folder named images.
• Write your own code. This pertains to this assignment and any other you receive in this class. Do NOT use our (or anyone else's) code. If you do, you will fail the assignment. If you have any questions about this, see the Foothill Honor Code and/or contact me.
• Be sure to test your work. We will be testing and grading your work in Firefox, Netscape 7.X and/or Safari. We strongly suggest you upgrade to the latest version of Firefox and ask you to view the page requiring you to download and install the current version of Firefox!

Specifics

Follow these specifics to create Lab 1.

• Create a new directory named week_01 for this week's assignments.
• Create a new XHTML document called lab_1.html using the XHTML template. Make sure to use the Strict Doctype.
• Using the data and image from this DATA LINK for the content of the page, create a document that looks like the one on page 17 of the Stylin' book (see image below). Do NOT use any CSS. Use only valid XHTML 1.0 Strict code.
• Use a DIV tag for each section of the document; logo, main content area, navigation, footer, etc. Give each DIV a unique ID.
• Use HTML comments for additional clarification.
• The useful links from the W3C should be live links to the actual sites.
• Use appropriate coding for the copyright symbol and the 3 in the World Wide Web Consortium acronym.
  Note: you may include the acronym styling if you wish (see P. 23).
• Save, test and validate this document.

If you have completed our COIN 61 and 63 classes you should already be familiar with how to validate your documents. Validation will be covered in detail in week 2.

Uploading this Lab

Your accounts on the CTIS web server will not be created during this first week. So complete this lab for practice now. In week 2 we will cover the process for uploading these files to your CTIS web space.