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Tuesday, July 12, will be photo day. We will use the photos in the web sites you will be making.
Welcome to the web design portion of the American Indian Summer Institute in Computer Science.
We are going to teach web page design using Web Standards as presented by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and promoted by the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Your pages will have their presentation (page layout and text formatting) in a separate file from their structure and content. The markup will be XHTML and the style will be CSS. Skeleton pages will be provided so that your efforts will be focused on adding content and style, not learning how to program.
Creating web pages is easy. It is not much different than word processing.
You have paragraphs and bold face and italics and so on. You add these features to a document
by typing in tags around the parts of the document you want to make look different. For
example, if you want something to appear in bold face, you surround it with the tags for
begin bold face and end bold face, which are <b>
and </b> respectively. So if you want the words Computer Science to appear
in bold face, you would type <b>Computer Science</b>
. With a half a dozen tags,
you can make a document that looks like a word-processed page. With a few dozen more tags you can
add graphics and get into some pretty fancy formatting. The combination of regular words (content
)
and tags is called markup. The content is what you want your readers to see, the markup is
how you make it so it looks like you want it to look.
