1. HTML Workshop Agenda 7/26/2006

2. Stuff from Last Week  Cache, history, URL chopping  View Source results

3. HTML Page Structure  Document Type Definition or DTD (what it is) e.g.,  Head (abstract, above everything else)  Body (Meat and potatoes, where the work gets done)

4. Today  Learn the basics of HTML  Learn the critical standard sources –W3C –Section 508  Create/edit and validate code

5. Structure of a Tag  Tag opener  Content affected (if appropriate)  Tag closer (if possible)

6. Clean (Best Practice) HTML  Code to standards  Maintain 508 (or better) compliance   Nested tags (FILO)  Ending tags when appropriate  Use white space within HTML  Use attributes and put within simple quotes

7. More on 508  Keep the goal in mind –www.section508.gov/www.section508.gov/  Alt tag images  Avoid frames  Use table headers "properly"

8. Test Your Work  Check for compliance (with laws)  Check for validity (with standards)

9. Resources  www.w3c.org/ www.w3c.org/  www.htmlhelp.com/reference/ www.htmlhelp.com/reference/  webstandards.org/learn/ webstandards.org/learn/  www.google.com/ search for "html primer" www.google.com/ search for "html primer"  www.section508.gov/ www.section508.gov/  www.contentquality.com/ www.contentquality.com/

10. Homework  Modify the demo web pagedemo web page