One of the easiest things you can do to ensure that you pages do not present accessibility barriers is to make sure that your text and interface elements have high contrast. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) give recommendations on ratios representing contrast between light and dark. The ratios are always given as X:1, where […]
WMADD 4815 HTML / CSS 1 Credits: 3 Room: B018 (PC Lab) Contact Info: Kevin McMillan Office A248 604.323.5941 Days & Times: Spring 2019 Mondays: 130 – 420 find my office Office Hours Tuesdays 130-430 SKIP to Class Content This class will cover HTML & CSS design and development, and serve as a prerequisite for the HTML / CSS […]
WMADD 4835 HTML / CSS 2 Credits: 3 Rooms: B014 Contact Info: Kevin McMillan Office A248 604.323.5941 Days & Times: Spring 2019 Tuesdays 930-1220 (Spring term runs Jan 02 – April 18) Office Hours Tuesday 130-430 SKIP to Class Content This class will cover HTML & CSS design and development, continuing on from the HTML / CSS 1 course […]
One source of confusion when installing node.js packages via npm might be that a lot of instructions recommend installing some packages with the -global or -g flag. Simply put, installing globally means that we can access the package from any place in your computer’s file system (as long as the place for our global […]
Hummus Recipe ( HTML semantics ) HTML Paths Exercise ( HTML Paths based on GuitarMania site, also FTP if at Langara ) Fela Kuti Markup & Styling Exercise ( Markup, Images, CSS: b0rders, fonts, gradients, bg-image, text-transform, letter-spacing. Has screenshot. Can be simple or complex. Early in the course, this would take a couple classes. Sublime Formatting […]
First please download these files. In this exercise, which we will likely do over the course of a couple classes, we are going to mark up a text file with a lot of information about the great Nigerian musician Fela Kuti. Our first concern will be marking up the document semantically—making our choices of HTML […]
Introduction to Web Design Course Number: CEDA 232 S001 Instructor: Kevin McMillan Number of Sessions 8 Day and Time Sundays 930-1230 Duration Oct 14 – Dec 09 No class Nov 11 Room B1122 COURSE DESCRIPTION This course explores the many facets of website design and development, as well as some of the ways that the […]
The Main Layouts Edit the _posts-and-pages file inside site/primary.
Now let’s do some styling of our content. Enqueue the Google Font First, let’s enqueue our site-title font: google’s smokum. Open functions.php and duplicate the line that enqueues the main stylesheet. It should be somewhere near line 120. Then in the duplicated line, change the “handle” (the first argument passed to the function). In order […]
Now let’s add a couple more modifications to the content.php template part. The Meta Data If we look at the screenshots of the front page and the single view, we see that the meta information (date and author) is not needed. However, for the Opinions section of the home page, the author name and gravatar […]