Submit your final project. The project is due to me no later than December 12, 2017 at 10:00am.
Continue working on your final project. The project is due to me no later than December 12, 2017 at 10:00am.
Upload your working version to you web space and send me the url. Make sure to do some customization so you get the opportunity to play with editing the calls to jQuery. Please send me the working URL before class on Tuesday. Please send to tswallace@ualr.edu
Make sure you have all outstanding work to me for grading. I’ll review grades with the class on Tuesday.
Additional Reading and Study – Javascript 101
Read the following Article on Progressive Enhancement. Send me an email (tswallace@ualr.edu) explaining progressive enhancement in your own words. Please discuss why it is important to use progressive enhancement and include a link to another article you found and read relating to the topic. Due before class Tuesday.
Complete Getting Started with programming at Codecademy. Send me a a screenshot of the completion page. I recommend creating an account so you can save your progress and complete other modules in the future.
Continue working on your individual web project. This is due next Thursday so make sure you are using your time wisely.
Choose one of the two micro-site projects and submit url to me by November 9, 2017.
SpaceX Dragon
Segway Centaur
Begin work on the Micro-site. You should have a good start on your main page template prior to class on Tuesday.
Create Banner image for your sample page in Gravit. The image should be as wide as your container div and between 80px and 200px tall and shoot for less than 40kb in size. Emailed tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Thursday. Have fun with this. You can make an image for anything. It could be a company, an event, a hobby etc. I’d like to see the following elements present in your design. Typographical Element, some sort of photographic element or vector artwork, and a consistent color scheme (Try Kuler).
Next class I’ll show you how to integrate this image into your template page properly. Please bring the file to class.
Email me the image you extracted and placed on in another environment.
Complete the following tutorials and submit the icon you create tutorial.
You should email this icon to me before class next Thursday. Late submissions will not be accepted. I do not expect you to perfectly replicate the icon in the tutorial but I would like to see a solid effort from each of you. This is a challenging assignment so I encourage you to not wait until the night before it is due. Good Luck!
Cloud-Based Alternative App – Gravit Designer
Complete today’s lab assignment and upload to cloud9 in a directory called positioning. Send me the url’s for each exercise no later than Thursday before class.
Read The following Article on CSS Positioning.
Read: Getting to Know CSS | Getting to know the Box Model – This is quiz material.
Read: Getting to Know CSS | Getting to know the Box Model – This is quiz material.
Read: Getting to Know CSS | Getting to know the Box Model – This is quiz material.
Watch – Accessibility for the Modern Web by Derek Featherstone
Explain in your own words what web accessibility means to you & why it is important to build accessible web sites? Do some research on the topic. This is a written assignment (1-2 pages) that should be emailed to me (tswallace@ualr.edu) no later than next Tuesday. Have a good weekend.
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. Make sure to publish your files to your Cloud 9 Workspace for grading.
Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML
HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML
Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML
HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML
Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML
HTML Reference – Code Guide | Introduction to HTML
Create a Codepen Account and experiment with it’s features.
Read (Quiz Material) Introduction to HTML
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 8-29-17. 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.
Setup and Account at Codepen.io. the free account is acceptable for the work we will do in class.
Additional Reading – 300 Million Dollar Button
Read: The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
Upload your working version to you web space and send me the url. Make sure to do some customization so you get the opportunity to play with editing the calls to jQuery. Please send me the working URL before class on Monday.
Begin looking for ways you can implement jQuery into your final project. Identify what is it you’d like to do (image gallery, carousel, lazy load etc.) and begin researching what it takes to get it implemented.
Additional Reading and Study – Javascript 101
Read the following Article on Progressive Enhancement. Send me an email (tswallace@ualr.edu) explaining progressive enhancement in your own words. Please discuss why it is important to use progressive enhancement and include a link to another article you found and read relating to the topic. Due before class Wednesday.
Complete Getting Started with programming at Codecademy. Send me a a screenshot of the completion page. I recommend creating an account so you can save your progress and completion other modules in the future.
Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email before class on Monday.
Submit Segway project no later than Monday.
Begin work on the Segway Projects. You should have a good start on your main page template prior to class on Monday.
Create Banner image for your sample page in Fireworks. The image should be as wide as your container div and between 80px and 200px tall and less than 40kb in size. Emailed tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Wednesday. Have fun with this. You can make an image for anything. It could be a company, an event, a hobby etc. I’d like to see the following elements present in your design. Typographical Element, some sort of photographic element or vector artwork, and a consistent color scheme (Try Kuler).
Next class I’ll show you how to integrate this image into your template page properly. Please bring the file to class.
Email me the completed optimized samples of the images you created in class. Due when we return from Spring Break.
Complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.
You should email this icon to me before class on Monday, March 27, 2017. Late submissions will not be accepted. I do not expect you to perfectly replicate the icon in the tutorial but I would like to see a solid effort from each of you. This is a challenging assignment so I encourage you to not wait until the night before it is due. Good Luck! If you’d like you can download a 30 day trial of Fireworks on your own computer so you can work off campus.
Complete today’s lab assignment and upload. Sent me the url’s for each exercise no later than Monday. Be prepared to discuss in class.
Read The following Article on CSS Positioning. Be prepared to discuss next week.
Read: Getting to Know CSS | Getting to know the Box Model – This is quiz material.
Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.
Read the following resource as a review. We’ll have a quiz next week over all of the reading and discussion so far. – Getting to know HTML
