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families, inline style, positioning, internal and external style sheets
based on tag, ID, class, and pseudo-class.)- Properly segregate HTML and CSS.
- Create valid HTML and CSS. (We validate our HTML and CSS against
W3C standards.) - Edit images. (We use Gimp to crop, resize, use transparency, and
create icons.) - Understand JavaScript. (We use it to dynamically alter the appear-
ance of a webpage.) - Understand Webhosting and DNS. (We establish a domain name and
subdomains and populate them with content.) - Understand Apache. (We use public html and index.html to create
websites.) - Understand CMS. (We install and customize WordPress, a popular
Content Management System.)
Acknowledgements
I am pleased to acknowledge and express my thanks for the following im-
portant contributions.
W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/), in its role
as an international community for developing open standards to ensure the
long-term growth of the Web, provides clearly documented standards that
are the basis of the modern Web.
You, the students who will read this book and apply its teachings, provide
motivation and context in which my efforts have meaning.