Exercise Three

Overview

Exercise three has four parts.

  1. Open the file (ex2.html) you made in Exercise Two with your text editor and add in the lines of code which will allow the w3c.org html validator to check the page.
  2. Use your FTP client to upload ex2.html to your web space.
  3. Navigate via the internet with your web browser to your web space, view and validate ex2.html online.
  4. Fill out the exercise feedback form and you are done!

Remember to take Quiz 3 on Blackboard Learn+ as well.

Details

Add Code for HTML Validation

Visit the validation tutorial in the tutorials section. It has more detailed instructions than this shorthand version.

  1. Copy and paste this line of code before the opening <html> tag.

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    This line of code lets the browser know which version of HTML it is interpreting and the HTML validator know which version of HTML it is checking.
  2. Make sure to include the XML namespace attribute (xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml") in the <html> tag. It looks like this:
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  3. Copy and paste this line of code between the <head><head> tags*.

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

    This line of code lets the validator and browser know which particular set of text you are using to write your code.
    *We are using this line of code since the webhawks.org server supplies it in the header of the file. For other servers, indicate the character set you are using.
  4. Copy and paste this section of code just before your closing body tag (</body>).

    <p>
    <!-- validator code using text links -->
    <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Validate XHTML</a>
    &nbsp;|&nbsp;
    <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer">
    Validate CSS</a>
    <!-- end validator code using text links -->
    </p>

    This code places a link to the W3C.org HTML validator (similar to the link at the bottom of this page) making it easy to check your page.
  5. Resave your ex2.html file with these additions. Now it is ready to upload.

These lines of code will be needed for all your exercise pages. Basically, all this is to keep the W3C.org validator happy and make it easy for you to troubleshoot your page. There are other validators available; we will stick with the w3c.org since they are the "keepers of the code."

Upload Your Page

Cabrillo has set up a web server (webhawks.org) for students to upload their projects. This space is reserved for your HTML and image files for this class and those only. It is not a storage space for other classes.

  1. Use your FTP client(the multiplatform Filezilla, Fetch, Cyberduck, or Fugu for the Mac, CoreFTP Lite for the PC) to navigate to your personal class directory at the Webhawks.org server. The tutorials for them have detailed instructions for logging onto the server.
  2. Open the "public_html" directory in your web space and upload ex2.html into it.

View and Validate

Your ex2.html file is in a directory on webhawks.org that is named the same as your login (or user) name. To view ex2.html, use this address in your browser:
http://webhawks.org/~yourusername/ex2.html
Of course, substitute your own user name.

  1. View ex2.html with your browser and click on the "Validate this Page" link that is on your page.
  2. If your page does not validate, read the error report to find out why. Correct the errors, upload your page anew, and revalidate your page. When it comes back with no errors, you are done!

Exercise Feedback Form

In review, the requirements for exercise three are as follows.

  1. Add the lines of code to ex2.html to keep the validator and your instructor happy.
  2. Use your FTP client to upload your ex2.html file to your web space on webhawks.org.
  3. Troubleshoot your page and validate it as instructed.
  4. Go to the feedback form for exercise three, fill it out, send it, and you are done. Good work!

Exercise Three Feedback Form

Will appear on February 14

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