COAP:COAP-3120/week3
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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
- with a nice background using color and a background image
- insert background images within HTML elements (e.g. a "div")
Due:
- Wednesday week 4
Details TBA on Wednesday
Reading
- Textbook
- Read Chapter 7 (Background Colors and Images)
- Handout
- 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 !)