Requirement:
To be able to have basic understanding of xHTML and CSS and be able to create a simple functioning cross browser / cross platform website without tables.

Outcomes
A System Development team member must have basic xHTML and CSS understandings

• Be able to create simple xHTML and CSS websites
• Ability to investigate small problems and fix them
• Limit work being returned to Creative Development Team
• [result from first two points]
• Deprecated tags; separating content from presentation; key points of XHTML syntax (cleaner/stricter mark up); external style sheets etc

Website definitions:
Sites are to be coded using the latest xHTML Transitional and CSS2 standards. IE
[standards compliant coding practices will cover all these requirements]

Simple XHTML/CSS tasks
Being able to investigate where a layout error has occurred and how to fix it
[class practical’s cover this aspect (debugging techniques)]

Items being returned to Creative Department
Items that should not have to come back to the Creative Team are things such as;
(Random line breaks caused by incorrectly placed <br/> tags)
[standardised XHTML/CSS coding practices cover this, as well, training students to reference from reliable sources for future references is a key aspect of the training]

Key references/examples:
http://www.users.on.net/~pjk/css/css_layout/css/css.htm [CSS theory]

various layout examples

http://www.users.on.net/~pjk/css/css_layout/1.htm

http://www.users.on.net/~pjk/css/css_layout/2.htm

http://www.users.on.net/~pjk/css/css_layout/3.htm