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Web Design I is taught at Frederick Community College in the Spring semester.
Digital Illustration at Hood College is taught in the Fall semester.
Assignment 5: Code a Wikipedia article with HTML
Class: Web Design
This is just like the the constitution assignment. Choose your favorite band, celebrity, musician, historical event, invention, animal … you get the idea. Just choose something that is at least as long as the U.S. Constitution. Use the “contents” area of the wikipedia article to help you decide how to break up the content into [...]
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Assignment 4: Chapter-3
Class: Web Design
Read and work your way through Chapter 3. Do all the examples, bring your questions to class or email me throughout the week. Continue exercises regarding the “bubble under website.” Be prepared for me to check your progress.
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Review of Chapter 3
Class: Web Design
One major thing to keep in mind with CSS is that you are separating style and content. On a side note, I think this is also true for InDesign; I believe there are many similar concepts shared between InDesign and HTML/CSS. One example is the bad practice of putting two paragraph spaces between paragraphs for [...]
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Assignment 3: Format the U.S. Constitution
Class: Web Design
Download the text for this assignment here. You’re job is to make a small web site using the content from the U.S. constitution. Project instructions: break up constitution into web pages like so (and this will be your navigation): Preamble Article 1 – The Legislative Branch Article 2 – The Executive Branch Article 3 – [...]
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Review of Chapter 2
Class: Web Design
Understand document hierarchy, as in your “heading” tags (<h1>, <h2>, etc.). The book did not mention this, but typically and for reasons related to Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O), you should only have one tag per page. I want to emphasize no sharing of IDs. IDs indicate a parent element, and classes can be repeated to specify multiple [...]
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