This document provides information about an HTML programming and internet tools course. It includes contact information for the instructor, Petter Warnsberg, and module leader Vincent Lau. It outlines the course structure, schedule, assessments, reading list, and resources. Examples of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash and dynamic content are provided. It discusses the evolution of digital media and the layers of technology that the web is built upon.

1. HTML Programming and Internet Tools CO1052 /
CO2052
Feb 2010 | p.warnsberg@kingston.ac.uk |
www.twitter.com/petterw

2. http://www.linkedin.com/in/petterw
Petter Warnsberg

3. Contact me
• Contact me
– I live in Room SB318 (Sopwith Building)
– email: P.Warnsberg@kingston.ac.uk
and include “HTML” in the subject line
– “office hours” Mondays 11:00-12:30,
– www.petterw.com
• For Course URL:
– http://sites.google.com/site/kuhtml/
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4. Contact Module leader
Vincent Lau
• Contact Dr Lau
– Live in Room SB215 (Sopwith Building)
– email: V.Lau@kingston.ac.uk
and include “HTML” in the subject line
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5. A Few Administrative Points
• In StudySpace, you can find information such
as:
– Module Guide
– Lecture notes
– Practical exercises
– Assignments
• Outline marking schemes
– Useful links and references
– Discussion Boards
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6. Structure of the Course
Day Time Class type Room Week nos.
Teaching weeks
1,2,3,7,11 and 12
Thursday 9:00-10:00 Lecture CLT Week 9 is
“enhancement
week”, activities TBC
...
Teaching weeks
Thursday 10:15-11:00 Lecture JG1009
1,2,3,7,11 and 12
Teaching weeks
Thursday 11:00-12:00 Practical JG1009
1,2,3,7,11 and 12
Teaching weeks
Thursday 10:15-12:00 Practical JG1009
4, 5, 6, 8 and 10

7. 2008/9 (Semester 1) results
• 45 students
– Passed at first attempt: 30 ( 67%)
– Average mark 46%
• Highest mark 94% (3 students > 90%)
• Seek helps asap if needed
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8. Week No Date Session
1 4th Feb 10 Lecture 1 & Workshop: Module introduction, Introduction to HTML/XHTML
Lecture 2: Tags
2 11th Feb
Workshop: Exercise set 1: Tags
Lecture 3 : CSS and CSS Layouts, Introduce individual coursework Part 1
3 18th Feb
Workshop: Exercise set 2: Tables and lists
4 25th Feb Workshop: Exercise set 3: CSS
5 4th Mar Workshop: Exercise set 4: CSS Layouts
Workshop: Exercise set 5: Images
6 11th Mar
Test 1 (on first part of the module, during practical class), Part 1 individual coursework folder submission (on 15/Mar)
Lecture 4: Best practice
7 18th Mar Test Results & Discussion, Introduce individual coursework Part 2
Workshop: Exercise set 6: Validation
8 25th Mar Workshop: Exercise set 7: Forms
9 15th Apr Enhancement Week – No Lectures or Practical
10 22nd Apr Workshop: Exercise set 8: Build a Webpage
Lecture 5: JavaScript and jQuery
11 29th Apr
Workshop: Exercise set 9: JavaScript
Lecture 6: Web design
12 6th May Test 2 (on all part of the module, during practical class), Part 2 individual coursework folder submission (on 10/May)
Workshop clinic
10th May – 14th May Revision week – No Lectures or Practical

9. Assessments
• Please READ Module Guide
– Penalty for late submissions!
– If needed, negotiate an extension in
advance
• In-class tests 30%
– Test 1 11th March
– Test 2 6th May
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10. Assessments
• Individual Work folder 40%
– Part 1 submit on 15th March
– Part 2 submit on 10th May
• Group Mini-Project 30%
– Submit on 17th May
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11. Plagiarism
• Guidelines can be found at:
http://student.kingston.ac.uk/C6/Plagiarism/default.aspx
• Formal Hearing
– If found guilty
• First offence – 0 given, FZ grade recorded
• Second offence – may terminate registration
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12. Reading list
For this module:
 P. Carey, “Creating Web Pages with
HTML, XHTML, and XML”, Thomson
Course Technology, 2006.
 D. Gosselin, "Introductory XHTML",
Thomson Course Technology, 2003.
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13. Reading list
 D. Oliver and M. Morrison,
"Teach Yourself HTML and
XHTML in 24 Hours",
SAMS, 2003.
Good reference book in the subject
matter (applications based):
P. K. Yuen and V. Lau, "Practical Web
Technologies", Addison-Wesley, 2003.
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14. Web Resources
Good internet resources:
 World Wide Web Consortium
 http://www.w3c.org/
 W3 Schools
 http://www.w3schools.com/
 Tutorials
 http://net.tutsplus.com
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15. This is digital media

16. The technology that
drives digital media

17. evolution

18. Each generation of online
technology builds on
previous generations

19. Example:

21. physical network layer:

22. hardware layer:
servers & computers

23. network layer: TCP/IP

24. protocols layer: HTTP

25. server software layer:
Apache, IIS

26. data layer:
databases, XML

27. browser layer:

28. content structure layer:
XHTML

29. content style layer: CSS

30. dynamic layer: Document
Object Model + JavaScript

31. extension layer:
Media (Video, audio)
Interactivity (Flash, Silverlight)
Functionality (Add-Ins,
Extensions)

33. Web development
1. HTML/CSS
2. Frontend scripting
3. Backend development
4. Content management
5. Server administration
6. Flash development
7. Content and assets

34. Content of module
HTML Best practice
Describe the content so Make it great:
that machines knows what -Usability
it is -Accessibility
-Production workflow
CSS -Validation
Style the content so that -Debugging
humans can easily take it
in -Web design
JavaScript
Make it interactive so that
it becomes more intuitive,
faster and obvious to

35. Example 1
• A typical web page
contains:
– HTML instructions
– Style sheets
• Colors, fonts, sizes, styl
es etc.
• Images, animated GIF
images, objects, … html_example.htm
– Javascripts
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36. Example 1 – HTML code (see
example on StudySpace)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head><title> A Shooting Game - ex09-09.htm </title></head>
<style>
.tx01St={font-family:arial;font-size:18pt;font-weight:bold}
.butSt{background-color:#dddddd;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;
font-size:18pt;color:#880000;width:60px;height:40px}
.butSt1{background-color:#aaffaa;font-family:arial;font-weight:bold;
font-size:18pt;color:#880000;width:110px;height:40px}
</style>
<body style="background:#dddddd;font-family:arial;font-size:20pt;
color:#000088;font-weight:bold">
<div style="position:absolute;top:15px;left:150px">HTML Example - A Shooting Game</div>
<img src="line1.gif" style="position:absolute;
top:50px;left:150px;width:380px;height:6px" />, ....
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37. E-commerce: Amazon.co.uk

38. Communitites: last.fm/user/petterww

39. Example 2 – Flash movies
• A Flash Movie that runs within a Web
browser plug-in embedded with HTML
– Flash Movies written separately
– A Flash SWF file is downloaded along with
a Web page from a Web server, but the
Flash itself runs on the user‟s computer
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40. Campaigns: Get the glass 40

41. Example 3 – Dynamic HTML
• Manipulating the HTML and browser
with JavaScript
– Rich interfaces and AJAX
– Enabled web applications
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42. Web applications: Google calendar

44. The Cloud

45. New type of services

46. Prosumer

47. Data portability

48. Personalisation

49. Intelligent web – APIs

50. Intelligent web – Mashups

51. New platforms

52. New platforms
Game console integration

53. New platforms
Android, Wave, Chrome OS, Friend connect

54. Augmented reality + Profile

55. Mobile trends
1. Features that make sense in a Mobile
phone.
2. Move towards applications (away from
pages.)

56. Learning, creating, testing and sharing
...in a fragmented ubiquitous digital landscape
that builds on top of existing layers of
technology.

57. From browser to server return

58. What is the Internet?
• A computer network is a collection of
computers that can exchange data via a
telecommunication mechanism
• An internet is a network of computer
networks
• The Internet (capital ”I”) is one
large, globally accessible internet
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59. HTTP versus HTML
• HTTP governs how files move over the web
• HTML defines structure of Web documents
HTML
docu-
ments
Web Server User‟s Web Browser
e.g. www.kingston.ac.uk e.g. k123456.kingston.ac.uk
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60. Why is the Internet important?
• The third most important invention in the
computing history
– The Computer, the Microprocessor, The
Internet
• Worldwide communication, access to
info, to people and business
• Easy to use
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61. History
• 1960 ARPAnet
• 1990 World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee
created a set of technologies that allowed
information to be linked together through links
in documents (HTML)
• 1992 Mark Andreessen created the first Web
browser Mosaic
• 1994 World Wide Web Consortium
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62. Web Browsers
• Web browsers are software programs that allow
users to access certain types of Internet files in an
interactive environment
• Microsoft‟s Internet Explorer and Netscape‟s
Communicator
• The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the unique
address associated with the Web page and is
displayed in the browser window, e.g.
(http://www.kingston.ac.uk/index.html)
• Navigation through hyperlinks which can reference
other Web pages, e-mail addresses and files
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63. Web Server
• A computer, running special software, which
is always connected to the Internet
• Typing and URL in the Web browser or
clicking in a link sends a request to the server
that hosts this information
• The server sends back the requested files
and displays them in the Web browser
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64. Document Formatting
• WYSIWYG
– “What You See Is What You Get”
– Use visual tools to format the document
e.g. Word for Windows
• Mark-up Languages
– Use special „codes‟ to specify the
functionality of the content in a document
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65. HTML
• Stands for Hyper-Text Mark-up
Language
• It is a Mark-up language and the files
are compiled and presented on
demand, usually by a web browser
• However it is not a programming
language
– Note: there are Mark-up languages that are
also programming languages 65

66. HTML (cont…)
• HTML documents are plain text (not
case sensitive) files with embedded
markup codes (tags)
• Any simple text editor could be used to
create and edit HTML file
• The file should be saved with extension
.htm or .html
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67. HTML versions
• Originally developed at CERN as part of
the WWW project managed by Tim-
Berners-Lee
• The first browser was Mosaic, by Marc
Andreessen who went on to found
Netscape
• The grey days of incompatibility
followed until recently...
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68. XHTML 1.1
• stands for EXtensible HyperText
Markup Language
• Largely based on HTML 4.01
• Defines HTML as an XML application
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69. What is a Tag?
• The mark-up „codes‟ in HTML are
called tags
• A tag may be used to describe an
element of a list or the heading of a
section
• Actually their functionality is much wider
and we will attempt to introduce the
most basic ones today
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70. Just one Second !
• Is there any point in writing plain HTML
when Microsoft Frontpage is out in the
wild ?
• It produces very wasteful code
• It doesn‟t always give you exactly what
you want.
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71. What do these tags look like?
(1)
• Tag names are included in < >
• The text to be formatted is included in
<tagname> text </tagname>
• Tags can be nested <b><i>text</i></b>
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72. What do these tags look like?
• They may also have attributes
<img id="flower" />
• Tags must always have a matching
closing tag
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73. Structure of a Tag
<p id="title">Welcome to CO1052</p>
tag attribute attribute
end
name name value tag
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74. The Mother of all Tags
• Tags in XHTML are case sensitive
– BUT not in HTML
• The most basic tag is the one that specifies
the document type.
• The whole of an HTML document must be
included between
<html>
and
</html>
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75. The Document Type
• To adhere to the XHTML 1.1 standard, the
first line of the document must be the
appropriate document declaration
e.g. (see next week lecture)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
transitional.dtd">
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76. Inside the document
• A document must have a head and title
element given by the nested tags:
<head>
<title>Here goes the title</title>
</head>
• The head section is followed by the body
<body> everything happens here </body>
section.
• The body is where everything happens 76

77. HTML/XHTML Document -
example
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/
xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> Example of a title </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is an example of h1 heading</h1>
</body>
</html>
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78. So How to Type your HTML
Code then?
• Use simple „text‟ editors, such as
notepad
– And don‟t forget to save file with file
extension .htm or .html
• Use „HTML Editor‟ such as HTML-Kit
• Use WYSIWYG authoring software
such as Dreamweaver from
Macromedia
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79. Using notepad
• Follow start > All programs > Accessories > Notepad
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80. Using HTML-Kit
• HTML Editor
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81. Using Dreamweaver
• WYSIWYG authoring software
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82. Publish your own index.html page
http://sites.google.com/site/kuhtml

83. Keep on trucking
p.warnsberg@kingston.ac.uk | http://twitter.com/petterw