Exam—Thursday October 29th

EXAM

Don’t forget there is an exam this Thursday October 29th.

Please arrive to class on time.

Things to study:

  1. Types of CSS Selectors
  2. The Acronym list from the preceding post that we went over in class.
  3. You will have to write out the code (from memory) for a basic multi-column single page.
  4. The semantic html tags and their usage. http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp

 

Acronym List

HTML: Hyper Text Mark-up Language

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

FTP:  File Transfer Protocol

URL:  Uniform Resource Locator

CSS:  Cascading Style Sheets

JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group

GIF: Graphic Interchange File Format

PNG-8: Portable Network Graphic-8 bit

PNG-24:  Portable Network Graphic-24 bit

PHP: PHP Hypertext Pre-Processor

Homework Assignment—News Article Redesign

News Article Redesign

1. Choose a news article from a website of your choice. You will need the text from the article and at least one image. You can either use the image that is with your source article or alternative images of your choice.
2. While adhering to the style of your source site, redesign the news article’s layout to present it in an interesting and engaging way.
3. You must include any social media and related article links, as well as the total number of ads present on the original page. Though you can redesign the page content to change there positioning and relation to your main article content.

Due Next Week: Create 5 Low-Fi Wireframes for your article.