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Instructions for submitting final projects
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Answers
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Rather than covering new material or going over the mid-term, we’ll answer some questions regarding specific advanced techniques you can use on your designs.
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Mixing XHTML and CSS Code
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008We’ll look in detail at how a standards compliant HTML page combined with CSS can provide well styled documents. Since it’s one of the best organized documents I know of, I’m going to use this page as an example.
We’ll also look at how you can validate your documents. To the right are a couple of Javascript tools you might find useful. These called bookmarklets and you can drag them into your bookmarks toolbar to use them.
The “Validate HTML” bookmarklet works in any browser and will validate whatever page you happen to be on at the time. This function uses W3C’s validation tool, which is also available under the meta section of your web pages’ sidebar or from the Tools menu in Firefox if you have the Web Developer extension installed.
The “View Source” bookmarklet only works in Firefox and will allow you to view the source of any page you happen to be on. This is equivalent of choosing View Page Source in Firefox or View Source in Safari from the View menu. All browsers have equivalent functionality somewhere, usually under a View menu.
Sign up
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008There are two steps necessary to get ready for the web site you’ll create for the class project.
Web Tools
Thursday, August 30th, 2007We’ll use a lot of software in this class and here are some things you can do tonight during the lab to increase your chances of success.
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Getting ready for your own site…
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007There are two steps we’ll do tonight to get ready for you have your own site to work on for the class project.
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Files for tonight…
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007These are the files we’ll use tonight…
Structure of the Web
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Today, I received e-mail from a former student who offered this advice:
“As a word of advice from a former student, tell them one of the only ways they will learn how to use the code and tricks of the trade is to get started NOW making posts.”
I couldn’t agree more. More importantly, with only 23 class periods left before your projects are due, it’s time to get crackin’ on those 30 items of content that are required for your semester web site project.
Tonight, you’ll create an About page describing what your web site is going to be, well, about. You should have a pretty good idea of the subject matter you want to cover and be prepared to discuss it with your classmates this evening. I’m not so much looking for what your site will be about in a couple of months, but rather a direction that will lead you to that conclusion. Things change and web sites evolve…
Tonight we will also start learning about the structural languages of the web, HTML, XML and XHTML. While I’m speaking, I’ll want you to follow along by viewing this page and its source code.
Your Sites Are Ready…
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007You will notice a list of student names and links their web sites in the right sidebar. These are your sites and you can log into them using the user names and passwords you provided over the past week. I’ll be coming this in detail during class tonight, but after you log in you should see a lot more privledges than when you logged into the main server. You also have the ability to log into any of your classmates sites, but you will only have subscriber privleges.
Labbing it Up…
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006During tonight’s, we’re going to refine our work environment in TextWrangler, the general purpose text editor we use for creating and editing XHTML, CSS and different kinds of XML documents.
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