Author Archives: Jerron Smith

About Jerron Smith

Jerron Smith uses the working name “thepixelsmith” to denote a connection to the craftsmen of old. Though instead of metal or paint he works with a medium unique to the 20th century; the pixel. A multimedia guru and skilled designer he likes to describe himself as an animator, designer,editor, & educator; a renaissance man of the 21st century. He is a multi-faceted artist and video creator and has worked in a wide variety of different media. He has experience in both digital video/television production, and post-production as well as extensive knowledge of the Web and Print Design industries.

Responsive Design – Let the Device Do the Work

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Responsive Design – Let the Device Do the Work

There may be some argument over whether responsive or adaptive designs are better, but in many cases responsive design is going to be chosen for budgetary purposes (at least today). That means designers need to become familiar with the concepts and some basic guidelines for their responsive designs.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/responsive-design-let-the-device-do-the-work?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=sm&utm_content=the_three_major_principles_of_responsive_design&utm_campaign=post

Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

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Common Mistakes When Presenting Design Ideas to Clients, and How to Avoid Them

You’ve spent weeks working on a client design, churned through the requisite nine terrible designs to get to that lone good one, tested iterations with the team and with your friends as willing (or maybe unwilling) guinea pigs, and you’ve got the perfect web design solution for the brief.
Then you present it to the client, and you screw up. Sound familiar?

https://speckyboy.com/mistakes-presenting-design-ideas/?ref=webdesignernews.com

Past Midterm Exam for Reference

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Mid-term Examination (Worth 30 pts)

1) Define the following acronyms listed below and write a short sentence about each term.  (worth .5pt each):

HTML: _____________________________________________________

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HTTP: _____________________________________________________

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FTP:   _____________________________________________________

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URL:  _____________________________________________________

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CSS:  _____________________________________________________

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JPEG:  ____________________________________________________

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GIF:  ______________________________________________________

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PNG-8:  ___________________________________________________

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PNG-24:  __________________________________________________

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2) List any four different types of CSS Selectors (worth .5pts each)?

1: _________________________________ 3: _________________________________

2: _________________________________ 4: _________________________________

 

3) Where are the three places (locations) where you can define CSS rules(worth .5pts each)?

1: _____________________________________________________

2: _____________________________________________________

3: _____________________________________________________

 

4) You have two images that you must optimize for the web. One image is a logo with only three colors and the other is a full-color photograph. Considering that you want the highest visible quality and the smallest file size what formats should you save each image in (worth 2pts).

 

The Logo should be saved as a: _________________________

 

The Photograph should be saved as a: ______________________

 

Explain why you made the choices above:

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5) Create a css style to automatically set the background of all of your web pages to the following color: rgb(255, 0, 255). (worth 1 pt)

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6) What are two major difference between the PNG-8 and PNG-24 file formats? (worth 2 pts)

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7) What are two major difference between the PNG-8 and JPEG  file formats? (worth 2 pt)

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8) Given the following block of code, what type of selector could you use to format the hyperlinks inside the unordered list(<ul>) tag below? (worth 2 pts)

<div id=”navBar”>

<ul>

<li><a class=”navLink” href=”#”>Home</a></li>

<li><a class=”navLink” href=”#”>About Me</a></li>

<li><a class=”navLink” href=”#”>Portfolio</a></li>

<li><a class=”navLink” href=”#”>Contact Me</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

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9) Using the code block from the preceding question and your answer also from the preceding question, write the CSS rule that you would use to set the text inside of each hyperlink to the following color: rgb(255, 0, 100). (worth 2 pts)

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10) Rewrite the following text in HTML code to place the first line of text inside of a Heading 1 tag and the second line inside of it’s own paragraph tag. You can skip writing the body, div and other container tags (worth 1 pts).

The Five Great Lakes are:

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie and Superior.

 

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11) Of the three locations where you can define CSS rules (internal, external and inline) which location allows you to have the most flexibility when attempting to format multiple web pages. Explain why/how your answer is correct (worth 1 pt).

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12) Given the following block of code:

<body>

<div>

<p>SHE walks in beauty, like the night,</p>

<p>Of cloudless climes and starry skies;</p>

</div>

</body>

Create CSS styles that will make the following changes: (worth 1 pt)

  1. a) make the text in the first paragraph tag bold and also change it’s color to #FF6633 .
  2. b) set the width of the div that contains the two paragraphs to 960px wide.

To do this you will have to rewrite both the HTML and create CSS rules. Note approach this as if you are writing the html and css into two separate files.

HTML:

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CSS:

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13) What is the purpose of the <div> tag in html (worth 1 pt)?

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14) Which of these tags is not like the other, which of these tags just doesn’t belong? Circle the tag that is different from all the other tags. (worth 1 pt)

<div>, <p>, <h1>, <img>, <a>, <ul>

Explain:  ___________________________________________________________________

 

15) Correct the errors in the following code: (worth 1  pts)

<div>

    <p class=”largeText” Grumpy wizards make toxic brew for the evil Queen and Jack.</p>

    <p class=”largeText”> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

</div>

 

16) How many total colors does an 8-bit image format such as GIF or PNG-8 have?

(worth 1  pt)

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17) Describe what a descendant selector (#topNav ul li a) is and how it works (worth 1  pts):

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18) Add html code to place the following lines of text inside of an unordered list (worth 1  pts):

Home

About Me

Portfolio

 

18) You current text size is 14px, what is the value of a margin you have set to 2.5 ems? (worth 1  pts)

 

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19) What is the name of the CSS property that controls the color of text? (worth 1  pts)

 

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Cool HTML Tutorials & Services

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Responsive Layout Testers

A very helpful couple of tool for checking the how your website displays at different screen resolutions.

View Like Us

http://viewlike.us/

CyberCrab

http://cybercrab.com/screencheck/

Free Customized Feedback Form Wizard

http://www.thesitewizard.com/wizards/feedbackform.shtml

The above site is an excellent wizard that walks you through creating a simple PHP based contact form.

Open Source resource to check your sites browser compatibility

http://browsershots.org/

See how your site will look in different browsers

CSS Only Dropdown Menu

http://red-team-design.com/css3-dropdown-menu/

CSS3 Only Animated Dropdown Menu

http://red-team-design.com/css3-animated-dropdown-menu/

Hambuger Menu for Mobile

http://blog.g-design.net/post/42617934013/create-an-accessible-toggle-menu-for-mobile