can any one help me out??


CSS:

In the question parts that follow, where you are asked to write some “minimal

XHTML” you should write the elements you need with minimal content – it is assumed

that you already know how to write a valid XHTML page.
(a) Illustrate using minimal XHTML and CSS how you would layout a data table like

the following:

<table border="1" bordercolor="" width="10" bgcolor="">
<tr>
<td>  </td>
<td> Tony Blair </td>
<td> John Prescott </td>
<td> Gordon Brown </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Position(April 2005) </td>
<td> Prime Minister </td>
<td> Deputy Prime Minister </td>
<td> Chancellor ofthe Exchequer</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Year of birth </td>
<td> 1953 </td>
<td> 1948 </td>
<td> 1951 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> Place of birth</td>
<td> Scotland </td>
<td> Wales </td>
<td> Scotland </td>
</tr>
</table>

where there are headings in both the 1

st row and 1st column that must be

marked-up correctly using the appropriate HTML element and attribute.

(b) Consider a 2 column, centred, fixed width layout:

(i) Write down a skeleton of the page with minimal content and no links to
other pages but including the essential XHTML elements needed for
layout with two columns (one each for navigation and content), using valid

ID’s to identify each separate <div> on the page.

(ii) Define the term “source order” and briefly discuss how your column order in (b) part (i) above affects the presentation of information to Google’s web crawler, “googlebot”.

(iii) Write efficient CSS using absolute positioning with selectors based on the ID’s from part (i) to make the two columns appear on the page with
navigation on the left and main content on the right. Centre the layout and
make the navigation 200 pixels and the content 300 pixels wide.

(iv) Explain briefly what a flexible layout is. Write the necessary HTML element to provide an alternative stylesheet called “flexible.css” and beneath it write the necessary rules to make the layout from (b) part (iii) flexible using widths based on font-size units.

(v) Using the same ID names write down the CSS necessary to make the

same layout with the columns using CSS floats.

I may have missed something here, but if this is an exam, wouldn't have this been taught in the course itself?

I just love it when students just want the pros to do their work for them.. geez.

(ii) Define the term “source order” and briefly discuss how your column order in (b) part (i) above affects the presentation of information to Google’s web crawler, “googlebot”.

You mean somebody is teaching you this incorrect information !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What sort of course is it? A degree?