Lecture Notes - Thurs Feb 13

• Questions?

• continue discussion and examples of common HTML tags, page design, and all that.
  • site design:
    • legibility (color, size, ...)
    • navigation (linear vs heirarchical)
    • organization of files and images
    • relative links and portability
    • author (contact email) and date
    • credit where credit is due
    • common sense
  • icons as links
    • search "icon collection" on Google
    • putting images in a single folder
  • IMG "alt" attribute
    (and general issue of making your site friendly for non-standard browsers)
  • logical markup (i.e. "strong") vs physical markup (i.e. "bold")
• Aside - XML eXtensible Markup Language
  • what it is - data organized by tag structure
  • becoming a common internet standard for a variety of purposes.
  • example - camels.xml