ET630 Agenda Class 4AM

• Questions and Announcements
  
  • No classes next week; we meet again on July 9
    
  • Project updates
  • Web 2.0 Project due now
    
  • Critical Information Literacy Project is due next class
    
  • Telecollaborative and Web Site Projects are due in three classes
• Class Summary Update
• If you didn't comment on last class's summary, be sure to check it out at http://tricider.com/brainstorming/P6YZ
  
• Stacey and Mollie are today
• Shayna and Wes are next class
  
• Be sure to comment each class
• CSS Introduction
  
• Review with the video introductions to CSS
• Video 1: What is CSS and where does it go?
• Video 2: Multiple CSS commands and simple things to do to a paragraph
• Video 3: Styles for multiple tags including H1
• Video 4: Classes
• Video 5: Div
• Watch for the mistake with = instead of :
  
• Video 6: The Box Model
• Video 7: More Resources
  
• Check out some CSS tutorials and go through them if you like:
  
• Most thorough tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css/
• Good tutorial: http://www.tizag.com/cssT/
• Easy introduction: http://draac.com/css/css1.html
• A thorough but rather technical description of CSS: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
• Skim parts of tutorials you already know
• Be sure to play with CSS using the Try It Yourself Feature of http://www.w3schools.com/css/
• Probably this afternoon: CSS Practice
  
• Try to create something interesting with CSS.
• If you are at the basic level, just try to create a couple of pages with interesting styling (CSS Styling) and some bordered areas (CSS Box Model). For example, get paragraphs indented and spaced the way you want.
• If you are already comfortable with basic styling, try to create pages with different layouts, perhaps playing with:
• Float: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp
• Align: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_align.asp
• Templates for some layouts: http://www.ssi-developer.net/main/templates/
• Automatic Layout Generator: http://csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php
• Put your practice work online (using your Loyola Web space or any other Web space)

This page was prepared by: David M. Marcovitz, Ph.D.

Last updated: June 26, 2012