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rosie77
08-09-2003, 11:48 AM
am totally new to HTML (been learning for about 3 hours!) and i'm learning it for an application for a job I really want...

i've gone through a basic course (Primers) so I can write and manipulate text etc etc... but the interview requires me to "undertake a debugging excercise on a test HTML page"!!

there's nothing mentioned about this in the material I have, and i can't find any useful help on the internet. it's either really technical (ie above my head!) or password protected!

does anyone have any good resources I can use to learn this (by monday!) or could you help? what kind of thing will it be - will it be as simple as looking at the source page to see where the tags are wrong? or is it something altogether more scary?!

hope some genius can help me!!!

thanks a mil,
:D
DaveSW
08-09-2003, 12:22 PM
It's probably referring to looking at the source code. You'll be looking for stuff like unclosed tags, font tags (deprecated) and stuff like that. Unless it's really basic you'll be hard pushed to learn it by monday, but try one of the links below to check up on your html.

http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/

There is another good one here:

http://validator.w3.org/

but you can use the first link by copying and pasting your html in.


They're validators, and will tell you exactly what's wrong with your html. Basically an automatic debugger.

If you want to check your html knowledge, go to www.w3schools.com - they have tests and everything to help you prepare.

GOOD LUCK!!!
rosie77
08-09-2003, 12:31 PM
that's excellent help, thanks so much!

am off to visit those sites now and then commit the Tags lessons to memory....

:D

thanks again!
DaveSW
08-09-2003, 03:35 PM
I've just noticed this page

http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/problems.html

There's a few good ones to look out for! lol

Good Luck again!!
rosie77
08-12-2003, 03:02 PM
can hardly believe it, but they offered me the job....! or at least they will as soon as my references check out!!!!

so must have passed the test.. was just looking at the code and findin the errors - which I must have managed!!!

thanks for yr help!
DaveSW
08-12-2003, 04:57 PM
Congratulations! You must have worked hard lol!!! :D