Programming the World Wide Web

1. Brief introduction to the internet. The world wide web

Web browsers

Web servers

Uniform Resource Locators

Multipurpose internet mail extensions

Hypertext transfer protocol

Web programmer's toolbox

2. Introduction to XHTML. Origins and evolution of HTML and XHTML

Basic syntax

Standard XHTML document structure

Basic text markup

Images

- Hypertext links

Lists

Tables

Forms

Frames

Syntactic differences between HTML and XHTML

3. Cascading style sheets. Introduction

Levels of style sheets

Style specifications formats

Selector forms

Property value forms

Font properties

List properties

Color

Alignment of text

Box model

Background images

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tags