Create a Codepen Account and experiment with it’s features.
Read Semantic XHTML (Quiz Material) & Read Chapter 2.
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 8-28-14. 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.
Read Chapter 1 in Textbook and The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
Please submit the url of your final project no later than 3:30pm (May 7, 2013). I enjoyed having you this semester. If you have not completed the course evaluation please do so. Enjoy your Summer.
Find a jQuery tutorial/technique on the web. When evaluating the script make sure that the page is still usable without Javascript enabled. You should pick something that can be integrated into your current site to meet the above mastery requirement. Submit the URL to me via email of the working script. Due Wednesday.
Some examples to get you started…
Upload a working version of today’s in class example to your 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. Your assignment for the weekend will be to get something working you can submit to me next Wednesday.
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 Monday.
Complete lessons #1 thru #4 at Codecademy.
Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email before class on Monday.
Work on the Segway project and bring questions to class on Monday. This project is due next Wednesday.
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 the Monday following Spring Break. 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.
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 31, 2014. 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 Wednesday. Be prepared to discuss in class.
Style your prototype HTML Document from top to bottom. Upload the file to your web space and send the URL to tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Tuesday.
If you haven’t already, please read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Monday.
Finish styling your sample html document. Make sure that you have styles to provide the page layout and visual design (typography and color). Really experiment with the different properties and their values. I don’t expect this to be beautiful, but I do want you to see what you come up with. Please be prepared to share this with me in class on Monday.
Watch – Accessibility for the Modern Web by Derek Featherstone
Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.
Reading Assignment: CSS Basics and Chapter 8
Be prepared for a Quiz on Monday covering all readings and in class discussion.
Read Chapter 4 and Chapter 6
Read (Quiz Material) Read Chapter 3
Read Semantic XHTML (Quiz Material) & Read Chapter 2.
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 1-27-13. 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.
Read Chapter 1 in Textbook and The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
Today we will work individually on our final projects and review/troubleshoot our Jquery implementations.
Submit the url for the page including your Jquery implementation. This should be submitted no later than this evening.
Find a Jquery tutorial on the web. When evaluating the script make sure that the page is still usable without Javascript enabled. You should pick something that can be integrated into your current site to meet the above mastery requirement. Submit the URL to me via email of the working script. Due Tuesday.
Find a Jquery tutorial on the web. Begin working on the implementation and bring to class on Tuesday. When evaluating the script make sure that the page is still usable without Javascript enabled. You should pick something that can be integrated into your current site to meet the above mastery requirement.
Complete lessons #3 and #4 at Codecademy.
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.
Read A reintroduction to JavaScript and complete lessons #1 and #2 at Codecademy
Work on the Segway project and bring questions to class on Thursday. This project is due next Tuesday.
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 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.
Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email no later than next Tuesday.
Your assignment for Spring Break is to complete the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.
You should email this icon to me before class next Tuesday. 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 Thursday. Be prepared to discuss in class on Tuesday.
Style your prototype HTML Document from top to bottom. Upload the file to your web space and send the URL to tswallace@ualr.edu before class on Tuesday.
If you haven’t already, please read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Tuesday.
Style your prototype HTML Document from top to bottom. Be prepared to share this with me in class next week. I am not looking for perfection. I’d really like you to experiment with as many css properties as possible.
If you haven’t already, please read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Thursday.
Read the following article on CSS Positioning and be prepared to complete an in class lab assignment on Thursday.
Read: CSS Specificity & Class vs. ID – This is quiz material.
Reading Assignment: CSS Basics