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Unit 2
HTML Critique:
Sample1 – The first thing that jumped out at me was the lack of organization and poor readability. I cleaned up the indentation and provided some spacing between the head and body, as well each element within each. Then I was able to look at the tags and clean them up, properly ordering them so that the headings and text displayed properly. I left the table in the code but added the heading “Don’t do this:”. The reason for this is to demonstrate clean, readable coding for a table (body/rows/data elements). I also added a viewport meta tag to make the page scalable for width so that it can be read on different screen sizes.
Sample 2 – I got rid of the references in the and tags and added the viewport meta tag. I cleaned up the indentation. Now the file is ready to flesh out with code.
I added and divs to each file, and wrapped the existing body content in a div.
I opened each file with Firefox, Chrome and Edge to ensure cross-platform readability.
For the login page (index.html), I used a simple form and cheated (for the time being) on the interlinking by adding an href to the Submit button. I left out the “required” attributes for the username and password inputs to preserve flow functionality through the Submit button. There is no need to enter a username or password for our purposes, of course.
I created a home page for the client persona (client_home.html) that displays a dashboard of progress (in a table) and a list of communications from others with access to the client’s profile (provider and 3rd party). This is where I included the external link. The home pages for provider and 3rd party personas will be similar, but the 3rd party will be a read-only of the client dashboard. The provider home page will have one extra level in the hierarchy displaying a list of the client profiles in their portfolio.
There is an activity page (client_activity.html) containing a single activity (form for email is here). Functionality was tested and it works as intended.
I created the beginnings of a conference page, with a placeholder video for now. This page will be the portal to the video conference functionality of the site (beyond the scope of this course).
Link to files:
http://student.athabascau.ca/~brentbe9/Unit2
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