Review

This week you will get the opportunity to complete a mock TCA. This is nothing to worry about, you should look at it as a great opportunity to get some feedback from your tutor and identify any areas that may need some extra work.

Knowledge check list

In order to succeed in the mock TCA you should ensure you understand the areas outlined below. Remember, it's an open book test so we're testing your ability to utilise the techniques below not your memory.

HTML Structure

Week 1 - Introduction to HTML

Week 2 - Tables and Nested Tags

Revision Points

  • You should know how to layout the skeleton of an HTML page
  • You should know how to use the following tags
    • <div>
    • <p>
    • <ul> you will need to use unordered lists in order to make menus
    • <table>
    • <h1> - <h6> make sure you only use 1 h1 for the primary heading
  • Ensure that you use the tab key to indent each tag relative to its parent tag

    • You will gain marks for correctly formatting you code, make sure you indent correctly

    • This is incorrect

      <div>
      <p> Some text in here</p>
      </div>
      
      • This is correct
      <div id="content_section">
        <p> Some text in here</p>   
      </div> <!-- /#content_section -->
      
  • Note, as per the above example it's also important to use an HTML comment to mark closing DIV's

CSS structure

Week 3 - Introduction to CSS

Week 4 - CSS and Layouts

Week 5 - Using CSS to Make Menus

Revision Point

  • class and id Attributes , know how to apply classes and id's to tags. Remember, a id is alway unique to a given page

  • Know how to style elements by targeting class, id and html selectors

    HTML

      <div id="section">    
          <h1> Internet Technology </h1> 
          <p class="green"> This is a paragraph</p>    
      </div> <! -- /#section  -->
    

CSS

       h1 {  
           font-size: 20px;
       }

       #section {
           width: 200px; 
           float: left; 
       }

       .green {
           color:green; 
       }
  • Understand the basics of the box model how to use:

    • width - width: 100px
    • height - height: 100px
    • margin - margin: 10px 10px 10px 10px
  • padding - padding: 10px 10px 10px
  • border - border 1px solid green
  • Understand float layout and know how to use it to position div's

      #wrapper{
          width: 80%
      }
      #box1 {
        width: 20%;
        float: left;
      }
      #box2 {   
         width: 20%; 
         float: left;   
      }    
    

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