Review of necessary skills

Readings

HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th Ed.
Pages 13 to 82. For review.
Differences Between XHTML and HTML
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Web Quality Assurance Tutorial
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Necessary Skills

This course will continue to open up the possibilites available to you inside the Web. To be successful in this class and find the passion many of us have to use the Web to its potential, ascertain if you have most or all of these traits and skills.

TraitsSkills
  • Creative thinker
  • Troubleshooter
  • Investigator
  • Interested
  • Entrepeneural
  • Available
  • Collaborator
  • Organized
  • Understanding of the web server’s jobs
  • Basic .html
  • Basic image optimizing
  • Sense of design and typography
  • Clean file structuring
  • Accurate typist

Pre-assessments

Take all three quizzes and review all topics you had trouble with. If you score below 50% on the HTML quiz, work through the W3Schools tutorials by the end of the week to see if you’re more comfortable with the content of this course.

HTML Quiz
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XHTML Quiz
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CSS Quiz
W3Schools offers excellent tutorials, examples, and quizzes. Find out in 5 minutes if you’re ready for this class. Find out in 5 minutes if you need to brush up on.

Survey

So that I can tailor my instruction to work for all students, I need a good indication of your skills, system set up, and interests. Please take the survey by the second day of class.