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Site Planning and CSS Positioning

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Site Planning

CSS Positioning

Assignment

Fill out your Site Questionnaire using you own portfolio project as an example project. Once completed, storyboard your portfolio web site and submit both to me before class next week.

Please Read the following Article before Class Next Week – CSS Floats 101

 

Introduction to Dreamweaver

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Assignment

Create and Validate a prototype HTML document that includes examples of all HTML elements covered thus far. For a list of requirements view this page.
Emailed to tswallace@ualr.edu on 9.19.11 (Monday)
Reading Assignment: CSS Basics

HTML5 Audio

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Assignment

Evaluate and implement one of the html5 audio fallback options. Please share the url of this working implementation with me before class on Thursday Included on the page should be the url of technique you used and a list of browsers and devices you were able to support.

Be prepared to demo/discuss both the video and audio implementation in class on Thursday

Working with CSS

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Assignment

Homework – Style all major elements in your current index.html file. You should apply some sort of layout and then make sure you style all of the elements in the content area of the site as well. Upload to the web server and send the link (tswallace@ualr.edu) to me before class on the February 20th, 2012. This is an exercise in experimenting with different css properties and values. If it doesn’t look perfect that is okay. I want you to play.

Introduction to HTML5

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In Class Assignment

Visit 10 Websites / Services you frequent. For each you should provide me with the site url, declared doctype, and a list of linked resources with the relationships. Only include the relationship information for elements we have not discussed. I’d like for you to discover as many new relationship types as possible. There is no need to list all relationship attributes for the site, only ones that are new to you. Once completed select one of the new relationship types and provide me with an explanation of its purpose.

Please email this assignment to me prior to class on Tuesday.

Homework Reading

Getting Started

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Assignment

Evaluate your favorite web site based on our discussion of Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior. This is a written assignment that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than 1-26-12. Make sure you discuss the following elements: Site URL, An assessment of the Structure, Content, Design, and Behavior of the site, Things you like about the site, Things you would change.

Site Management

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Homework:

Read: The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards – Write: Blog post explaining the impact of the browser wars on modern web development and how why web standards are important.

Supplemental:

Video Tutorial – Defining a site

A work in progress…

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While the site is live and being used for our coursework there is still much work to be done. As we progress throughout the semester things will improve as the design and site implementation are tested. In an effort to publish more frequent updates, I’ll use these posts as a way to to discuss and evaluate different techniques, plugins, scripts, etc.

Current Features Wishlist

  • Improved Mobile Carousel
  • Add Sencha.io to server up re-sized images on the fly
  • Super Wide View
  • Parallax Background Using Multiple CSS Backgrounds
  • Experiment with animation in header and footer sections
  • Integrate and Style Comments on Teaching Modules

Known Bugs

  • Carousel Flicker when returning to page from another tab