Set Up A New Site Install a new MAMP-based WordPress site, in a folder called jazz-icons. Give the site a title of Jazz Icons and a tagline of The Giants of Jazz. Install the ZeeBizzCard theme. Import Some Content Download the sample content. In the zip file you download will find a WordPress export file. Import that content […]
Web Designers Maggie Jamie Kayley WordPress Designers Christine Brendan Max Editorial Estrella Cathlin Nicole Taylor Code Purity / Print Ella Simone Graphics Stephanie Halley Trista Promotions Julio Ada Marley
This exercise follows on from the first part of the Guitar Mania web design exercise. Our client has decided she wants some revisions to the design. Go to the following URL and look at the page that is there: https://kevinmc.ca/guitarmania2014. Your task in this exercise is to take what we did in the previous one and […]
If you need a review of how paths work before doing this exercise (or if we haven’t covered them in class yet), you can find one here. To begin, please download the files you will need for this exercise. When the zip file downloads, unpack the archive (double click on Mac, right-click on Windows). This will leave […]
MARKING RUBRICS Here are the things I will be marking you on this semester. ADD CLEAN CODE ADD DOCUMENTATION Responsive Critique (10%) Validated HTML: 1 Validated CSS: 1 No broken links: 1 No typos, spelling errors, crappy grammar: 1 Image: 1 Single External Stylesheet:1 Semantic Markup: 1 Files in folder structure: 1 Detailed Analysis: […]
Here are a bunch of video training series. Most are free, with the exception of the Lynda.com stuff. I’ve watched a lot of them, but not all. So if any suck, be sure to contact me and tell me why. Web Design Icon Fonts: senior Lynda.com author James Williamson has two video series on icon […]
This exercise is optional. However, if you complete it, you will learn a great deal about one of the cornerstones of modern front-end web design. Loaded on all of the Publishing Departments iPads are a number of eBooks from abookapart, which is the print wing of alistapart.com, long easily one of the most important sites in the web design […]
The Publishing Department’s Policies For Students document is available on STUDENTSHARE in COLLABORATIVE / PUBL / Student Access Files. A few sections of that document are excerpted here: Attendance Having to do a work shift for an outside job will not under any circumstances be accepted as an excuse to miss a class, an assignment deadline […]
Please download the files for this exercise. In this exercise, we will explore ways we can establish vertical rhythm on a page by being aware of the font-sizes, line-heights, and margin values of our text. We will first do the exercise using pixel units, because they are easier to wrap our brains around. However, pixel […]
If you’re using a theme that doesn’t support widgets, you can get it to do so by adding some code to functions.php and then adding calls to the dynamic sidebar in any template file. Widgetizing the HTML5Reset Starter Theme In its current incarnation, the html5reset wordpress theme’s widget area isn’t working, but the code can […]