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Vancouver Gallery Exercise

First, please download these files. This zip archive contains a folder of images. Now download these screenshot files. Make a new folder named vancouver-gallery-yourname. Put the downloaded images folder inside the folder you just made. You will make all the HTML & CSS for the exercise. The Task Make a page that a header and […]

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Visual Studio Code: Wrapping Selections in Tags

If you have a lot of content to mark up, using Visual Studio Code’s features can make that job a lot faster, and more consistent. The movie below shows a couple ways to leverage multiple selections and Emmet’s wrap-in-tag functionality. Get comfortable with the techniques used here and you’ll save lots of time. Here’s the […]

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pretendmag layout exercise

First, please download the starter files you will need. Once you’ve unpacked the files, you will see that are two folders of images whose names show the orientation of the images inside them: unsplash-2020-landscape unsplash-2020-portrait Next please download the screenshots. In this exercise, you will make a front-page of a magazine-style website. There are four […]

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The Eatery Restaurant Menu 2020: Responsive Page

For this exercise, please first download these files. Once you unzip the files, you will see that there is an index.html file, a folder of images, a screenshots folder, a file called index-not-marked-up.html. There will be two ways to do this exercise: CSS Emphasis: the index.html file has most of the HTML & the content […]

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The Eatery Menu 2020: Step by Step Instructions pt 2

(…continued from part one of this exercise…) Now we’ll build the additional layouts the site requires. Header Area If we resize the screen quite wide, the site logo will get absurdly big. We’ll limit that by using our space more economically. First resize the browser window to determine at what size to change the header […]

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The Eatery Menu 2020: Step by Step Instructions

This is a step-by-step run-though of the layout in this exercise. First, please first download these files and open them up as a new project in your editor of choice. The index file has most of the content for the page. We’ll add a bit more HTML as we go through it. Note: there will […]

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SASS Settings For LiveSASSCompile VSC Extension

In order to get the LiveSASSCompile Visual Studio Code extension to save its compiled CSS files in the root level of a project, edit your VSC Settings. On Mac, you can do that by going to Code > Preferences > Settings. Once there, type in SASS in the field at the top. In the left […]

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DTN Mag Layout Lab Exercise 2020

First download these files: DTN Magazine Layout If inside the downloaded folder is a file called Instructions, delete it. It was for an older version of the exercise. Your Task Inside the downloaded content is a folder of screenshots.  Your job here is to make the page look as close as possible to the layouts […]

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Layout Exercise: Pretendco

What To Do NOTE: if this is a regular weekly exercise, the mark is out of 1, as usual. Consider the questions identified as “bonus” to be part of the exercise (and not for bonus marks). The marks listed below are for if this is an exam. Video Demonstration Please ignore the video in the […]

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Layout Exercise: Metonymy 2020

Please download the starter files and set them up as a new project in the editor of your choice. In this exercise, you will make a single-page responsive design. You can definitely use the Internet or your notes. If this is a test, you may not talk to anyone other than me or the Instructional […]