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Week 12 Notes for CST8281
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-Ian! D. Allen - idallen@idallen.ca - www.idallen.com

Assignment #10 was posted March 30 and is due April 13.  (Note the new date.)
Assignment #11 was posted on April 6 and is *also* due April 13.
Assignment #12 will be posted on April 13 and will be due April 20.

Self-mark uploads are available for Assignments 03, 05, 06, 07, 09, and 11.
For details, see the Class Notes file:  exercise_self_marks_NN.txt
Note the due date for these uploads.

Self-mark uploads contribute to your 10% Course Participation mark and
will help determine what topics I review during the last lectures and
labs in Week 14.

Lecture Notes for This Week
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Class Notes are located on the Course Home Page (not on Blackboard):

    http://teaching.idallen.com/cst8281/10w/

How to ask me questions by email:  260_how_to_report_problems.txt

See some new example file transfer methods under the heading "File
Transfer to/from the Course Linux Server at 10.50.254.148" in the
200_course_linux_server.txt file.

College VPN: search for VPN in the search box on the College Home page.
 - You can use PuTTY to the Course Linux Server from home if you start up
   the College VPN first.  See 200_course_linux_server.txt

W3C Validator: http://validator.w3.org/
 - You can add a button to the bottom of any web page that will validate
   it for you, so that you don't have to remember the above URL.  You can
   get the HTML for this button from any validated web page.

w3schools Introduction to HTML - http://www.w3schools.com/html/
 - WARNING: Some of the "Try It" examples use deprecated tags and attributes!
 - Do not use deprecated tags and attributes with the strict DOCTYPE.
 - Do not use self-closing tags, e.g. <br /> with the strict DOCTYPE.
   - Use the standard HTML tag <br> when using the strict DOCTYPE.
 - Read everything except "Forms" under "HTML Basic":
   - Read: HTML HOME
   - Read: HTML Introduction
   - Read: HTML Get Started
   - Read: HTML Basic
   - Read: HTML Elements
   - Read: HTML Attributes
   - Read: HTML Headings
   - Read: HTML Paragraphs
   - Read: HTML Formatting
   - Read: HTML Styles
   - Read: HTML Links
   - Read: HTML Images (omit image maps)
   - Read: HTML Tables
   - Read: HTML Lists
   - OMIT: HTML Forms (omit Forms - you will do this next term)
   - Read: HTML Colors
   - Read: HTML Quick List (summary of all basic tags)

230_web_what_vs_how.txt
 - Keeping "What" separate from "How" in Web design

250_basic_html.ppt
 - added more basic "what"-style tags, and a few "how"-style tags
 - introduced the "style=" attribute

Tables:
 - two descriptions of how tables work:
   - http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/lesson10.asp
   - http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):
 - "style" - presentation: how a page is displayed
 - this week, the basics: 
   - http://www.html.net/tutorials/html/lesson12.asp
   - http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/   (Table of Contents)
   - http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/introduction.asp
   - http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/lesson1.asp
   - http://www.html.net/tutorials/css/lesson2.asp
     - note the three methods described in lesson2.asp
   - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning
     - "Learning CSS" - another basic HTML/CSS tutorial

See Also the Try It boxes here:
 - http://www.w3schools.com/css/
 - http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_intro.asp

References and Limitations
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets
   - note "Limitations" section
 - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
   - CSS Home Page

Coming up next week:
 - CSS demo:  http://www.w3schools.com/css/demo_default.htm
 - Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp

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