Wednesday, October 17, 2007

We discussed accessibility. The general consensus was that we have a corporate social responsibility to make accessible the parts of the Web we develop. (I tried an accessibility check on my home page. One should and one may fix!)

We also worked a bit more with Nvu [download]. I walked you through some of its capabilities and some of its quirks (a need to refresh the site manager and the odd way you need to set up an external style sheet). We developed a skeletal Web site with a home page, an image, and a style sheet. I hope you'll start to use it and explore its capabilities. It makes you more productive than you can be coding tags by hand. However, you will often have to view the source and edit it to create the page you want. I encourage you to use it for the homework due Friday.

I introduced the CSS box model.

On your blog, please comment on (at least) three different Web sites each week. Be sure to check your grammar and spelling. Put a link to the page you are discussing.

Homework

Read pages 385–413. Work along with the book using the files provided. Be sure your HTML file and your CSS file validate.

When you have finished the exercise, send the files lounge.html and lounge.css as attachments to an e-mail message having the subject Chapter 10 Part A.

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