This material covers the basics of CSS – the use of appropriate selectors , ids and classed etc.
Lecture slides on CSS: CSS lecture handouts
Lab exercises: CSS lab exercises
The following resources are used in the CSS exercises
HTML and XHTML
This material covers the basics of semantic XHTML – the use of appropriate elements (tags) such as head, body, title, h1..h6, p, img, table, ul etc.
Lecture slides on HTML: HTML handout
Lab exercises: HTML Lab
The following resource are used in the HTML exercises
Use a right mouse click (and select save image as) and place these images in the same folder as your other files.
ITB Week 1
There are materials available for the first week of ITB (PDF files):
Lecture 1 handouts, in colour and 3 slides per page
BB1753 Lab 1
This file, which contains poor markup, is used in one of the lab exercises:
Web application architecture
This session talks about the architecture of a typical web application and shows how a series of technologies (and accompanying standards) allow a web transaction to take place. TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, Web servers and browsers, along with a discussion of server side code and database servers are all explained (some of it at an abstract level).
Handouts for this session (PDF)
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Lab exercise on site redesign
This is a practical session, implementing the site redesign in semantic HTML and CSS. This exercise requires a plain text editor – Textmate (mac) or Notepad++ (PC) are recommended but will do. A modern browser should be used to check the changes you make as you progress (Firefox with the Firebug debugging toolset are recommended).
Site redesign using Semantic HTML and CSS
This session is about moving an existing site into semantic HTML and CSS. By reducing the complexity (and mess) of the pre-existing HTML and moving the design into CSS broken into separate files, the site should be cleaner, better structured and more maintainable.
Slides for this session (PDF) (Cut down version without all the CSS explanations)
Slides for this session (PDF) (Full set of every slide that’s used)
The history of HTML, XHTML and Semantic HTML
This session is about the history of HTML, XHTML and the way that semantic HTML can be used to clarify / simplify markup and enhance reuse, slides (PDF).
The site markup which is cluttered and messy is HTML source
HTTP and web servers
This session is about the HTTP protocol, web servers and browsers, handouts (PDF)
Browsers
Two excellent posts about Web Browsers
The first from Mozilla celebrates 5 years of Firefox and explains what’s been going on this last year and where browser technology will be going next “super fast JavaScript, modern CSS, HTML5, support for the various web-apps standards, downloadable font support, offline application support, raw graphics through canvas and WebGL, native video, advanced XHR capabilities mixed with new security tools and network capabilities”.
The second from Glyn Moody contains a potted history of the development of browser technology. His Computer World column is always worth reading.
Video interview with Tim Berners-Lee
Video from a symposium organized by Finland’s Technology Academy Foundation, found at Beet.TV