I have enjoyed having you this semester. Have a great Summer.
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 Wednesday.
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
Complete the planning document and sitemap and submit to me via email before class on Monday.
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.
Add a contact form to your Segway project.
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 Tuesday. 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 this Wednesday. 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 the following tutorials and submit the folder icon you create in the 3rd tutorial.
You should email this icon to me before class next Wednesday. 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 using the techniques we have covered in class. Be prepared to show me in class on Monday.
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: 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
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 Wednesday.
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 1-25-16. 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
