Chapter 3 Resources

Part One: A Solid HTML Foundation

Chapter 3

This page contains all the files you’ll need to complete the homework for Chapter 3 in addition to reference files and links to resources related to the chapter.

Homework

The Miss Baker text file and Cornelius reference web page are linked to below. Use ‘View Source’ at our Cornelius page to refer to our markup when building your Miss Baker web page.

• Miss Baker Text File
• Cornelius Reference Web Page

Reference Files

Use ‘View Source’ (as covered in Chapter 2) to look at our example files’ source code. Where helpful we have included comments inline within the markup to give additional guidance.

• A Page with No Structure
• A Page with Basic Structure Added
• The Full Range of Headings
• An Invalid Page
• A Valid Page

Resources

• Roger Johansson - Plain Old Semantic HTML (POSH)
• W3C - HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibility, Section Headings
• Case Study - The Guardian
• The W3C Markup Validation Service

The Periodical

The most recent entries in the Periodical and Reviews sections:

• Trent Walton is a designer, speaker and relentless typographic experimenter with a passion for car culture, specifically 60s car culture of the United States of America. He lives and works in Texas Hill Country. We asked Mr Walton a dozen questions…
• Tina Roth Eisenberg, perhaps better known by her swissmiss moniker, is a 'Swiss Designer Gone NYC', with an eye for beautifully designed products that she writes about at swissmiss. She lives and works in NYC. We asked Ms Roth Eisenberg a dozen questions…
• AIGA have long fought the good fight against crowdsourcing, clearly articulating the very real issues that plague the 'winner takes all' approach to sourcing design by subcontracting it to the masses…

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