HTML and CSS course
I recently presented a days training course in XHTML + CSS. I was asked to cascade skills with others in the department who are not from a web based background. It was a fairly simple introduction to the topics, as I only had a day to get across the basics, however I did ask those attending to look at the tutorials on the w3schools site before hand.
The morning session consisted of a brief walk through the fundamentals of XHTML and using it to structure the page, navigation links and the importance of the semantic web.
The afternoon session was then taking the rough and ready pages we’d constructed and making them look more attractive across more than one browser. This was particularly interesting as two of the attendees were graphic designers.
I tried to impart as much as I could, but as you can imagine it’s rather hard to share 15+ yrs experience in one day. However, I’ve very pleased to say the feedback was positive and the attendees all seemed to be much clearer on the issues involved when constructing web pages.
The main goal for me was to make sure people attending all saw the importance of web standards, validation and well formed code. But also that they understood the power and potential of CSS and XHTML, through examples from the likes of css zen garden, a list apart and css play.