This exercise is meant to get you thinking about transitions, menus, responsive states, layouts, and as always web typography. First, please download the files you will need. In it, you will build a layout that was used to great effect by the Canadian literary magazine The Walrus. I’ve put in some of the HTML, but […]
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First, download the required files. Using Firefox for your browser will allow you to use its Layout tab in its Inspector. If you’re at Langara, use the Firefox Developers Edition. The task: In the files you download is a grid-starter-template.html file. For each layout you are to build, duplicate and rename to reflect the layout […]
This exercise primarily focusses on the use of the FLEXBOX css module for layout. It should also reinforce your understanding of the use of multiple backgrounds. First, download the starter files and screenshots. Since this is an exercise, I have not sized the images down to the final size I would use them at. In a production […]
In this exercise, you will build a mockup of the first page of a magazine-style WordPress theme called Midterm. It will look more or less like this, but consult the screenshots that you will get shortly, because the design has changed a bit. Download the starter files here. The Task Build the layout as close […]
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HTML Formatting Exercise – Hummus Recipe
For this exercise, please download this file. The download is a zipped folder containing a single text file. The file contains a recipe for hummus. Inside this folder, make a new HTML file and copy into it the hummus recipe. Imagine that you have a website called Recipe Depot. Your job: add HTML tags that […]
The exercise will focus on the essential points of the FLEXBOX CSS module. It won’t have anything design-related—just pure css layout concepts. To begin, make a folder, set it up as a new Atom project, then make an index.html file with a single unordered list with 15 list items, each holding one single-word link. Now […]
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ATOM Packages
A lot of good text editors, like Sublime Text and Atom, have the ability to easily install packages that will extend their core functionality. Sometimes, people will make packages to replicate functionality found in other editors. For example, I am a longtime Sublime Text user. However, since Atom is free, I’ve started using it so […]
If you want to practice float-based layout techniques, here are a few exercises. There are some very useful techniques contained in these exercises. If we have not yet covered a technique or tag yet in class, google it. Berlin Photo Gallery Go to this page and download the files and follow the setup instructions. This […]
In this exercise, you will make a photo blog home page. Please download the starter files and the screenshots files. There are three sections to this page: a header, a main area, and a footer. The font used thoughout is the Google font Old Standard TT. If this is a lab exercise and not a test, […]
Photos from this exercise came from Flickr, under Creative Commons licence. Thank you to the following individuals for making such beautiful work available. Jérôme Lemaire Taddie88 Sebastian Krieger Etienne Eric Prunier Guido D´Elia Otero Vlad Fiscutean Thomas Hawk Domi Thomas Hawk txmx 2 Thomas Hawk go elsewhere go elsewhere Thomas Hawk Mr J. Shaft Arq, […]