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The Eatery Restaurant Menu 2024: Responsive Page

For this exercise, please first download these files. Once you unzip the files, you will see that there is a begin-here.html file, a screenshots folder, and a folder of images. In the begin.html file, there are a number of tables that have been marked up already. Some images are also already in the HTML. You […]

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Guitarmania Quick Grid Review 2022—Video Series

This exercise is for you if you want to review how to use the grid display property, as well as to use the mobile-first authoring method effectively. If you have not used grid before, it would be better for you to do the step-by-step version of this exercise: it will take you through building this […]

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Intermediate Transitions Exercise

Please make a menu like the one contained in this video. Click in the bottom right to watch full screen: that will make what I’m looking for here more clear, and will remove the extra spacing this Loom player embed seems to want to add for some reason. Please make sure that your file has […]

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Diabolical Formatting Exercise

Copy the following snippet of text into Visual Studio Code: Now, figure out the most most efficient way to turn this data into a table with the following characteristics: There are four columns. The first row of the snippet has the table headers. Each table header begins with a capital letter. The table has this […]

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Layout Exercise: Cooking With Ken

First, please download the required files. In this exercise, you will make the front page of a responsive website. As always, use a mobile-first approach. There will be three responsive states: phone, tablet, desktop. Screenshots are provided with the downloaded files. You will write all the HTML & CSS. The Main Article Each paragraph in […]

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Emmet Exercise 2020

A Series of Short Videos I have posted a series of short videos about Emmet on the Loom video cloud hosting service. This service is new, so it’s missing a few common UI features, including the ability to sort the videos. As a result, they are presented by default in reverse chronological order: exactly backward […]

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Using SVG Images as CSS Masks

A really neat way to break out of the boxiness that is a default condition of CSS is to use images that appear non-rectangular. It’s very common, for example, to see images rounded with CSS. Assuming that the image has equal height and width, this code will make it perfectly round: Another interesting thing you […]

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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 […]