Web Development
DART 230
February 5
Today’s topic is more cascading style sheets.
Reading: Web Design +Programming Chapter 6.1-6.7.Here is a good description of how and when to use CSS from useit.com and Jakob Nielsen again. Also click on the embedded link for a definition of CSS from the Web Design Group.
You should understand the code behind the following demo I put together: CSS demo. Finally, for those who want to explore the topic further, including how to create styles in Dreamweaver, here is a fairly complete Web site I put together as a CSS Tutorial.Here for fun is a site that discusses the new colored scrollbars (IE 6+ only). And for future reference, here is a site that will translate or explain advanced CSS for you, called the Select Oracle. A good reference list for current CSS-3 properties is at Blooberry.com
This is the link for TopStyle which you should consider (LE version should be free; check out their style sheets).
Don’t forget: Test on Thursday. Here’s a Web site that so far hasn’t been submitted: The Webopedia and here is the content to review for the quiz:
- Web Development and Design Foundations chapters 1,2,3, 13.
- Lectures: Net vs. Web; URLs, Browsers, Search engines, searching, basic HTML, XHTML. Be prepared to correct some XHTML code.
- Handout: Welcome sheet (know what everything stands for)
- Links as needed e.g. about.com on search engines (1/23), UNC Academic Tech on HTML (1/25)
- Site maintained by John Beatty