Description	Write valid and semantic HTML.
Type	Hand-in assignment with oral explanation.
Duration	About 1 working day.
Progress points	1.5
Learning goals	Write valid and semantic HTML. 100%

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Learning materials

HTML, CSS, JavaScript Explained

A quick explanation of the roles of the three languages that work together in your browser.

Khan Academy - Intro to HTML

An interactive tutorial covering the basics of HTML.

Kan Academy - More HTML tags

This tutorial introduces links, tables and HTML comments.

HTML tutorials

If you don't like the above interactive tutorials, watching this videos (17m) may be a decent alternative. Or, if you feel you know all this, you can just skip to the next resource.

W3Schools HTML introduction

Quickly look over the content at W3Schools to see if there's anything still new to you. In particular, the following sections are relevant: Editors; Basic; Elements; Attributes; Headings; Paragraphs; Formatting; Comments; Links; Images; Tables; Lists; Blocks & Inline; Classes; Head; Entities; Css.

Semantic Markup

This article explains what semantic HTML is(not), and why (some) people care about it.

HTML cheat sheet

While working on the assignment, the following HTML cheat sheet might come in handy. It is a single (searchable) PDF document, with descriptions and examples for each HTML tag.

Online tool that checks HTML for errors.

While (and after!) working on the assignment, the W3C validator can be used to check if your HTML contains any errors. And yes, this tool is really strict!

Html layout elements and techniques

Introduction to using html to build page layouts

Assignment

Let's build a website that honors some of the programming heroes of the ages! You do the HTML, we've done the CSS styling. Of course, the HTML should be valid, semantic and consistently indented.

Install the 'Live Server' extension

Objective #1MUST

Within Visual Studio Code, install the Live Server extension created by ritwickdey, using the Extensions tab on the left of the window. After installing it, switch back to the Explorer tab, right-click index.html and select Open with Live Server. This should open the HTML document in your browser for preview in such a way, that any changes you make and save (ctrl-s) in Visual Studio Code will immediately be reflected in the browser.

The main page

Objective #22.1 points

You should edit the provided index.html such that when viewed in a browser it looks exactly like this:

The provided style.css file should take care of the styling. All you need to do is provide the right (semantic) HTML. You will probably want to peek inside the style.css to see what tags are being styled. We haven't studied the CSS language yet, but it should be pretty to easy to spot what HTML tag are being styled. This page explains exactly what you may want to know.

And of course, you'll have to properly <link> the CSS file from your HTML in order to apply it.

The privacy statement

Objective #32.1 points

Like above, but this time we're working on the most important page of any site: the one showing the privacy statement. Try to make privacy.html look exactly like this:

Hint: The small tag can be nested.

Compliance with standards

Objective #52.1 points

Both your pages should pass the W3 HTML validator without issues.

How to Indent HTML Code – And Why it's Important

Indenting

Objective #6- 1.5 points0.5 points

Your HTML should be consistently indented, such that humans can easily understand the structure of your document.

Rubrics mapping and grading

	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	-	Σ
Write valid and semantic HTML.	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	-1.5	9.0
Base grade.						1.0	1.0
Σ	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.1	-0.5	10.0