Thursday, October 4
Each individual will
- Read Chapter 3: Layout (84-103 & 110-116) in Zen of CSS Design (optional: class members with CSS experience might also want to look at the omitted readings in this chapter).
- Post a reading response to your individual weblog in which you reflect on some of the concepts in the reading.
Complete a final, polished draft of your Internet Technology Paper (1200-1400 words + bibliography).Write a Process Memo (500 word minimum).Bring a printed copy of your the final draft of your paper and Process Memo to class for submission to the instructor.- Continue to work on your Internet Technology Paper outside of class. The due date has been shifted to next week.
- Review the Mini Zen Garden HTML (look at the source code). Become familiar with the different parts of the document designated by the div's. You'll need to thoroughly understand the HTML code in order to begin creating a CSS-based design. Read about span tags in HTML Dog as the tag is used in this HTML document.
- If you have not done so already, begin investigating and experimenting with other CSS Properties explained in HTML Dog. The more you learn about various properties, the more formatting options you will have for your Mini Zen project.
Class Meeting
- Matt Haughey's Building an Online Community: Just Add Water.
- Read Proximity & Alignment and Repetition & Contrast. Be sure to click on the interactive images (Shockwave required).
- Example Mini Zen Garden student projects from Winter 07:
- CSS workshop on floats and absolute positioning.
- Floatutorial