You should use the CS Unix server (users.cs.umb.edu) to host your web site (contact the instructor and TA if you prefer to use another web server).;
- Pick a design template or templates from CSS Zen Garden and study the use of CSS and HTML by professional designers. Improve your own website that you have done in Homework 1 based on the CSS template(s) you have studied. You should use at least 10 new CSS properties to improve your website. Your TA will grade your Homework 1 using the softcopies you submitted to the UMassOnline. You may change your website in this homework without any constraint.
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All of your web pages in Homework 1 are Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict. While keeping all the web pages Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, you should furthermore make all the web pages VALID CSS. Here is the HTML you could use to add this icon to your Web page.
<a> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"> <img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss" alt="Valid CSS!" /> </a>
Once the W3C icon is clicked, W3C MarkUp Validation Service should valid your pages successfully. - Turn in a brief report that provides the URL(s) of the CSS Zen Garden template(s) you have used. Explain the new CSS properties you used in Homework 2. You may write the report in MS Word or just another web page.
- Turn in the paper copies of your web pages including the CSS and HTML source code and screen snapshots of the resulting web page. Hard copies should be bound firmly together as one pack. 5 points will be deducted for unbounded homework.
- Submit the softcopy of the files through your UMassOnline account. Zip all the files including the cover page into one ZIP file. Name the ZIP file as hwk2_lastname_firstname.
- An invalid homework URL (You must provide URL in your cover page) results in 10 points deduction.
- No hard copies or soft copies results in 0 points.