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Assignment 2
Due September 14 at midnight. Upload your .html, .css, and image files
to your McUAS server space in a folder named 257assign1 (see
instructions here). Email me if you do not receive a McUAS username
and password from me by Tuesday, September 9.
The Scenario
The (fictional!) Springfield School District has decided that it is
time to start converting their outdated Web site into a standards-
based Web site. They are happy with their current design, but they
would like to have pages that validate as XHTML transitional, and they
want their styles to be controlled by an external style sheet. Their
layout is currently controlled by a layout table, and they would like
to start using CSS for layout instead.
For this assignment, you will attempt to replicate the design of their
home page, while separating it into a page that validates as XHTML
transitional, and an external style sheet. They don't mind if some of
the spacing is a bit different, or if you change some aspects of the
design (colors, fonts and so on), but they would like the layout to be
the same (banner and photos across the top, navigation down the left,
content on the right, footer all the way across the bottom).
Part 1
Convert the Springfield School District (http://uashome.alaska.edu/~cjmckenna/fall08/cios257_200803/assignments/assign02files/springfield.html
) home page to XHTML 1.0 Transitional (view the source code and copy-
paste the html code into your text or html editor, and right click to
download the image files). The page must validate in the W3C's
validator: http://validator.w3.org/, and all traces of the main layout
table should be gone. Note: The photos that run across the top are
controlled by a nested layout table. Laying out this nested table with
CSS is a bigger challenge than laying out the page with CSS. You may
use a layout table if you'd like, or for an extra challenge, you may
attempt to use CSS to lay out the photos. You are also welcome to
change the way that these three photos are incorporated into the page.
The parameters for this page are as follows:
Convert all code so that it complies with W3C standards for XHTML
transitional
Remove deprecated tags and any unnecessary presentational elements
Add classes and/or divs and ids where necessary to accommodate your
new styles.
Part 2
Create an external style sheet for your XHTML file, doing your best to
replicate the original layout of the Springfield School District home
page.
The parameters for the style sheet are as follows:
Use tag styles for styles would be universal throughout the Web site
Assign id styles to your divs to layout the page
Validate your CSS file here: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Details
You may use any of your favorite Web authoring tools, but you are
responsible for the code it produces. You may, of course, also write
your code in a text editor such as Notepad. You are welcome and
encouraged to discuss this assignment and help each other out in the
discussion forum.
Please test your upload early in the week so that you won't run into
any last minute issues.
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