HTML for Programmers

There are many programmers who are moving towards creating web based front ends to back end systems and need to understand how to create and manipulate web pages that can present the correct interface to users. This course is aimed at programmers who need to get an understanding of the basic web environment in order to create these web applications and it includes an introduction to several of the main technologies that will be needed to achieve this.

In addition to the theory, this course is designed to provide a high level of hands-on experience. Practical sessions are used throughout to reinforce the teaching points. Several development tools will be available although delegates may use Notepad for all the exercises.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• appreciate the underlying web technologies including URL’s, HTTP and MIME
• use the most common functions of HTML and work with graphics
• build HTML forms and validate your code as XHTML
• work with linked, embedded and inline CSS
• understand absolute and relative CSS positioning
• understand the principles of client side scripting with JavaScript
• appreciate additional JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery and Dojo
• be aware of and use XML as well as DTD’s, Schemas and XSLT
• have an understanding of HTML5 tags and attributes