There are many things wrong with this page. It's not so bad that it won't
work on most browsers, but it has many things that could be written much better.
Your job is to use this code as a starting point and improve it.
You could, of course, cheat!
There is nothing wrong with using an HTML cleaner such as HTMLTidy, nor in
using an accessibility checker like the W3 site to ensure your code works well.
In fact, we would highly recommend that you do this whenever you create web
pages because they help to ensure your code is compatible with standards and
accessible to as many people as possible. Similarly, it makes perfect sense to
use a WYSIWYG HTML editor such as Dremweaver orthe open source KompoZer when
actually writing web pages. For the purposes of this exercise, however, you
may learn more effectively if you avoid doing that until you are fairly
comfortable that you have made as many changes as you can with just the aid of
references. The main reason we are learning HTML is so that we can write dynamic
JavaScript programs that are embedded within and which use and manipulate HTML,
CSS and other browser technologies. If you take short cuts at this point, you
will find it much harder later on. Remember, while marks will be lost
if you don't take care to deal with the problems on these pages, the main things
we are looking for relate to your ability to use the technology well and
effectively, paying close attention to the design needs you have already
identified.
Adding links
This is a link to the other page in this badly
written pair of pages. It uses a relative URL to point to a file in the
same file system. This is necessary if you are building a site for
portability, so that you can move it from one place (say your local computer)
to another (say, your website).
Pictures are not a part of a web page - the HTML page includes a link that
tells the browser to embed the image (if it can) and some extra optional
attributes such as its position relative to the text. It is far preferable to
use stylesheets for this kind of formatting, but that's a subject for the next
unit.
Making lists
lists are useful
for many things
and can be unordered,
indented
numbered
like this
and more
Making tables
Tables should only be used for tabular data
and never for layout
but many people do
use them for layout
It's not good for accessibility. Stylesheets work
much better for this
