Thursday, September 19
Each individual will
- Read Chapter 2: Design (47-77) in Zen of CSS Design (optional: class members with CSS experience might also want to look at the Night Drive section at the end of this chapter).
- Find two example websites (they could be good or bad examples) which you can analyze in reference to the readings.
- Post a reading response to your weblog in which you analyze at least one of the websites you have found.
- Review the readings from last week related to Internet technologis and conduct some preliminary research to select your topic.
- Write an informal proposal--at least 500 words--discussing your topic for the Internet Technology Paper. Be sure to discuss
- your working thesis
- the scope of your topic
- preliminary research (you should cite a few useful sources)
- strategies for further research
- reasons for your choice of topic
- any concerns that you have
- Format this proposal in HTML following good practices for writing for the web and post to your weblog.
Class Meeting
- Web Developer Extension
- Firebug Extension
- Discussion of readings.
- Continued instruction on CSS
- ColorMatch Remix and Color Scheme Generator 2
- Squidfingers Patterns
- Creating PDF Files