For this exercise, there is nothing to download, except for the screenshots. In the exercise, you will make a single page for an imaginary software company called Photon Software. The page will display details of five apps built by the company. Each app’s details will occupy one panel in the page. Please look at the […]
The WMDD 4840 final assignment requires you to deploy WordPress to a live server and get a domain name. In the materials below, there are three different ways to do this. Deploying to Amazon Lightsail Deploying via the control panel of a typical host company such as Namecheap.com Deploying to the WMDD Server with the […]
This assignment is only for students taking WMDD 4835 without taking WMDD 4840. Online Film Festival For this exercise, you will make a website mockup for an imaginary College Film Festival that will take place over five days June 13 – 17 of next year. Think of the project as a prototype of parts of […]
For this exercise, please download the starter files. This will include an html file and a folder of images. And please download the screenshots. Finally, here is a Loom video describing the task. There is already lots of HTML in the page. Feel free to add to, or subtract, from that HTML. Font Awesome is […]
For this exercise, please download the starter files. The starter files include an html file and a folder of images. Here are the screenshots. And here is a Loom video describing the task. There is already lots of HTML in the page. Feel free to add to, or subtract, from that HTML. Font Awesome is […]
Sometimes, you will inject Font Awesome icons into a document using pseudo elements rather than the empty <i> tags that are commonly used. Here’s example code using Facebook and Twitter. Note the font family: Font Awesome 5 Brands For the content value, put a backslash followed by the unicode value. You can find the unicode […]
Please download the starter files from here. A useful but occasionally confusing css property is object-fit (and its related property object-position. It allows to “crop” images with CSS, which can be very useful in responsive design. I have created a series of Loom videos to explain how to use it. As always, please watch them […]
I have created a Loom video series about web graphics. To go through the videos and practice the techniques shown in them, please download the starter files. Topics covered include: jpeg file size reducing jpeg file size via dimension & quality batch processing in photoshop, bridge, and xnconvert svg: the web’s vector file format png8, […]
In this exercise, you will learn how to create a sliding-down menu for small screens. In it, you will learn about: First, please download the starter files. Set them up as a new project in your editor (likely Visual Studio Code). Now, please watch this Loom video series. Please start with the video that has […]
Increasing Specificity If… Avoiding Monotonous Work Imagine you have a website with 100 pages, and you want to style the last LI in the main menu. Imagine visiting each page and adding a class to the last LI. Yuck. Modifying The Work of Others Imagine that you have a content managed site running WordPress or […]