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General Instructions For Your Websiteduring Week 1 Through Week 7 Of

During Weeks 1 through 7 of this course, you will be building a personal website on a topic of your choice that you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about. The initial phase involves creating a homepage with original paragraphs of information, organized with headings and sub-headings. Subsequently, you will add an external style sheet, and expand your website with additional pages and functionalities as directed by the course schedule. All code must be handcrafted using a simple text editor like Notepad++, TextEdit (set to Plain Text), or similar; no GUI editors like Dreamweaver or FrontPage are permitted. Your HTML must comply with HTML5 standards, validated through the W3C validator, and your external CSS must pass validation as well. The homepage must be named "LastFirstHomePage.html," and the CSS file "LastFirstStyleSheet.css," using your actual last and first name.

Throughout Weeks 3 to 5, you will create additional pages, hyperlinking them via a consistent navigation menu on all pages. In Week 4, you will add a new page named "table.html," which incorporates an HTML table with specific formatting requirements, linked to your CSS. You must validate all HTML and CSS files and fix any errors before submission. The final submission involves zipping the entire project folder, maintaining the original directory structure, and submitting only the zip file for grading.

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The development of a personal website as part of a structured course involves several critical steps that emphasize standards compliance, code handwriting, and user-friendly design. Initially, the project requires creating a homepage that introduces a topic of personal expertise and passion, containing a minimum of four to six well-organized paragraphs. The content should be original, providing meaningful and informative insights into the chosen subject, designed with proper headings and sub-headings to facilitate readability and logical flow.

Subsequently, students are instructed to add an external CSS stylesheet to enhance the visual appeal and consistency of their website. This stylesheet, named using a convention based on the student’s name, must be validated through the W3C CSS Validation Service, ensuring adherence to CSS standards. All subsequent pages created during weeks 3 through 7 should hyperlink via a consistent navigation menu, allowing seamless movement across the website's sections.

The focus on accessibility, validation, and standards compliance extends to the introduction of a third page, "table.html," in Week 4. This page features an HTML table with at least three rows and three columns, including a caption and appropriate headers. To ensure visual coherence, the CSS must be extended to style this table. Critical CSS properties include setting the table's width with a percentage, choosing a contrasting background color, defining border styles with the shorthand property, and collapsing borders to create a clean appearance. Additionally, cell padding, text alignment, and vertical alignment must be explicitly specified to demonstrate clear understanding of CSS formatting capabilities.

Before submission, all files must be validated for errors, and corrections made to ensure full compliance. Validation of HTML files should be performed using the W3C Markup Validation Service with the "Validate by File Upload" option, and CSS should be validated similarly. The project files must be archived into a zip file maintaining the original directory structure, including images or multimedia files if used, to ensure the website displays correctly upon unzipping.

This comprehensive process not only reinforces technical skills in HTML and CSS but also emphasizes good practices in website layout, navigation, and validation. By adhering strictly to the outlined guidelines, students develop professional-quality websites that are standards-compliant, visually appealing, and accessible to users and search engines alike.

References

  • W3C. (2024). HTML5 Specification. https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/
  • W3C. (2024). CSS Basic Module Level 3. https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2018/
  • Mozilla Developer Network. (2024). HTML elements reference. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element
  • Mozilla Developer Network. (2024). CSS properties reference. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS
  • W3C Validation Service. (2024). HTML Validator. https://validator.w3.org/
  • W3C Validation Service. (2024). CSS Validator. https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
  • Notepad++. (2024). Download and documentation. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
  • Apple Inc. (2024). TextEdit User Guide. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201266
  • Schwarz, D. (2021). Mastering HTML and CSS: Build Your Website from Scratch. Tech Publishing.
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