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COAP 3120 Week 3 program

Main topic: CSS colors and background images

Monday

(1) Week 2 - continued

• We will finish working on homework 1 project as defined on Week 2

Introduction to color models and CSS backgrounds

• Handout: CSS color tutorial
• Example page: http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/css/ex/css-page-background.html

Preparation for Wednesday

• Find 2 good web page examples that use colors and pictures as background and enter the URLS with a short comment to the discussion blogs in the world classrom (menu to the left)
• Think about some content that you would like to style on Wednesday. I suggest working with either a poem or a short manifesto. (to be discussed)

Wednesday

• Hands-on homework 2

Homework 2

Create an HTML page. It must include:

• A nice background using color and (optionally) a background image
• Other background images within HTML elements (e.g. a "div")

Due:

• Wednesday week 4

Details TBA on Wednesday

Reading and other resources

Textbook

Read Chapter 7 (Background Colors and Images)

Handout

• CSS color tutorial
• http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/css/ex/css-page-background.html

Color tables at Wikipedia

• Web colors (includes lists of colors, including a web-safe palette)
• X11 color names (same as CSS3)
• List of colors (huge !)

Validation

• HTML validator (alternatively, use the FF exension): http://validator.w3.org/
• CSS validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/