Notes for September 24th class
Tables
- rows (tr)
- columns (td)
- Can be edited with Dreamweaver GUI
Divs and layout
- We can embed divs within divs
- We use style and classes to control their appearance
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- Style can be in-line coded (style="")
- Style can be added to a style/endstyle block in the header
HTML ignores most white space
- must be used to create a dependable space
- Other character entities include © &usd; •
¥
Javascript
- Code typically resides in a script/endscript block in the head
section
- href="javascript:history.back()" can be used as a substitute
for a real filename
Markup language
- SGML
- HTML
- XHTML
- XML
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- Extensible
- We can create new tags using a Document Type Definition
Procedural language
- Fortran
- Pascal
- C
- C++
- Java
- Javascript
- PHP
HTTP
- Hyper text transfer protocol
- Default socket connectivity uses port 80 on the server
- Multiple documents can be sent over a single connection using
HTTP 1.1
Index pages
- index.html is the default page for a folder on the community
server
- Some servers use default.htm, index.cfm, index.cgi, or perhaps
index.htm
- You can also use index.php
File and Suffix conventions
- 3-letter suffixes are good, for example: .gif, .jpg, .wav,
.mp3, .html (doh!)
- file names should not have spaces, ' ` ! & $ %
- myfile.gif myFile.gif my_file.gif myFile1.gif my-file.gif