Web XHTML Guide.key

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application structure in XHTML - for specifics and. details,learn to do what most everyone else does: … Validate,validate,validate:use the official XHTML …

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XHTML Rules of Thumb
?Here are some overall guidelines for defining your
application structure in XHTML - for specifics and
details, learn to do what most everyone else does:
Use the View Source command on your browser liberally to see how other sites do it
Look things up on the Web (useful sites listed later and on the course Web site)
?First, we reiterate our Web authoring grain of salt:
because of the Web’s history, not everyone (nor every
browser) does everything in the same way; for this
class, we focus on the most recent, recommended
ways and standards for doing things
Web Page Startup
Start all of your pages with this - this declares that you
are trying to follow the latest, strictest standard:

DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

General “Tagging” Rules
?Make your tags reflect the content structure of your
page: “this part is the menu,” “this part is the title,”
“this part is a descriptive paragraph,” etc.
?To do this, you use both the built-in tags (h’s, p, div,
span), and the special class and id properties
?Validate, validate, validate: use the official XHTML
validator at http://validator.w3.org to make sure that
you’re following all the rules
?Use multiple browsers, but rely on the most
standards-compliant ones first
Learn How to Learn
?As mentioned, the Web is very much a selfdocumenting
technology: it is easy to find sites on the
Web that are about its technology and standards
?Here are a few sites that I have come to rely on myself
(aside from the generic Google and Wikipedia):
http://www.htmlhelp.com
http://www.w3schools.com
http://zvon.org…