By the end of part one of this exercise, we had made a basic but usable website. The main things we did to ensure a workable site were the following: Setting up responsive images. By making an img style of max-width:100%; height: auto, we made the page much more fluid than it would otherwise have been. […]
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For this exercise, we are going to make a website that looks like this: Please download the necessary image and text files. Unzip the file and then rename the folder to yourname-gibson-gallery. Inside this folder is an images folder, and a textfiles folder. Inside the text files folder are six text files. The text for the index page […]
In this exercise, please make sure that you are using Firefox: Chrome’s aggressive image caching will make the example appear not to work. As noted in the discussion of the SRCSET attribute, not all of our images need to take the full width of the screen. Depending on the layout, some might take half the […]
Apple’s default web browser is Safari, but we will generally use the Chrome or Firefox Developer Tools, so we need to change the default browser. To do that, go the Apple menu in the top left of the screen, then choose System Preferences, and then General:
For this exercise, please download this package of files. This package contains some images, and a folder of screenshots. Depending on when you downloaded it, it will contain one or two HTML files. The screenshots show three responsive states: open them and view them at full size. Please style the page responsive states as closely […]
For this exercise, please download the starter files and the screenshots collection. These are big files, so the download might be a bit longer than that for most of the files on this site. Inside the starter files archive is a Duplicator package and installer. Install that in a new WordPress database. Then go […]
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, and a screenshots folder. The index file has most of the content for the page. You will need to add: a stylesheet icon fonts for the top and bottom […]
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Lab Exercise: Form Processor
In this exercise, make an attractive, responsive form with the following qualities it asks the user for their name, as a required element it asks the user for their email, as a required element it asks the user for their phone number, as an optional element it asks the user for their comments, as a required element it asks […]
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CSS Blend Modes Testing App
This Loom code-along exercise will involve CSS Blend Modes, CSS Transitions, CSS Animation (just a bit), Advanced Form Styling, and a bunch of JavaScript. The Loom video series can be found here. In this series, we will making a page to demonstrate the effects of CSS Blend Modes. A more complex but similar example is […]
First of All… Please download the files for the exercise. In the downloaded archive, there is one HTML file, a folder of images, and a folder of screenshots. For this exercise, you are making a front page of a magazine-style site. There are two designs: one for regular marks and one for bonus marks. The […]