1. Hard to Reach HTML Mike Hanson AO, OES Web Workgroup Conference Chicago 10/27/2010

2. Fun Facts: a little history HTML – product of Tim Berners-Lee. First specification was presented 1991, 20 tags. Based on SGML, an internal CERN document format specification. You can look it up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML#Histor y

3. What we’ll cover Web design elements (& where they appear) Special fields Design objects Other stuff!

4. Simple HTML Page Header stuff. Meta tags, CSS, JS Content

5. Web design elements $$HTMLFRONTMATTER (field) HTML Head Content(design object) JS Header(design object) HTML Body Content(design object) Content

6. Special fields $$HTMLFRONTMATTER (before head) " “ $$HTMLTagElements (inside tag This is not a complete list of special fields, only the ones that mystified me!

7. Design object HTML Head Content holds all your tags & references

8. Design object HTML Body Attributes Info added here appears inside tag * text & bgcolor are always defaults

9. Cure for empty Meta tags? Add fields or computed text!

10. JS Header Not HTML. Important to know its content will end up in the section.

11. Other stuff! Embedded HTML Views Avoid the 30-row server default Vastly improved formatting http://www.epa.gov/multimedia/ HTML booboos Duplicate or tags Domino generates and tags. If you code them elsewhere you will generally be creating duplicates.

12. And I’m spent. Questions? Mike Hanson AO,OES Hanson.michael@epa.gov (202) 564-1320