COAP:COAP-2100/week4-2011
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Week 4
Topics Covered
- HTML (continued)
- The div and span tags
- CSS (continued)
- The class and ID selector (plus the HTML div and span tags)
- values and properties
- Discussion of some more properties
- Colors schemes and palettes
- RGB colors
- HSV colors (shortly)
- HSL colors
- Templating (to be confirmed)
Teaching materials
- CSS tutorial (started in week 3)
- Computer colors tutorial
- Links pages: CSS, Color, Web design links
= Online tools and reference
- http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ (validate !)
- http://www.quirksmode.org/css/contents.html (CSS compatibility tables)
- http://reference.sitepoint.com/css (SitePoint CSS reference, also available through the FF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13048) extension
- http://colorschemedesigner.com/ (Excellent color palette design and testing tool)
- http://kuler.adobe.com/ or http://www.colourlovers.com/ (sites that lets users publish color palettes)
Classroom activities
- Monday
- (Short) feeback homework 2
- Other HTML editing tools and strategies (Kompozer, Tidy)
- Colors (lecture)
- Creating a color palette (visit of some online color scheme tools)
- Drawing a sketch for a "multi-boxed" web page (e.g. a portal)
- CSS 2 (part II)
- Hands on CSS (you may work on homework 3). Use of the HTML div and span tags, CSS values and properties.
- Homework 3 Q/A (in particular regarding the term project)
- Wednesday
- Templating for Blogger (to be confirmed)
Homework
- TBA (Wednesday)