Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The early lectures

Below are links to the pages weve built in class, as well as a compressed folder containing the five-page website we built on Monday. These pages cover the most basic HTML tags, dealing with headlines, paragraphs, lists, links and anchors.
website1.zip,
index.htm
lecture3.htm
lecture4.htm

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

The Fall 2008 syllabus

Here it is.
syllabus_fall08.pdf (acrobat document, 230k)

Monday, August 25, 2008

Welcome Fall 2008 web design students!

This blog is the place to go for class announcements, information, class lectures and extra stuff. Check back often. The course outline will be posted here tomorrow. In the meantime, here is my information.....
Mark Craddock
phone: 719-738-2437 (That's in Walsenburg. I spend most of the week here in Pueblo, however, so you'll have better luck e-mailing me).
e-mail: mgcraddock@aol.com

One bit of advice. In addition to the textbook, you might want to cruise the bookstores for a pocket reference to HTML, XHTML and CSS. Don't spend a bunch of money, but you should be able to find one for $10-15. All my tests are open-book and notes, and you will be hand-coding at least one project, so this little investment might save you hours of grief.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lecture 3 - Making it pretty

In this lecture, we discussed attributes to the <body> tag that allow us to change the look and feel of the basic HTML page. We also broke down the <font> tag, discussed a few specialty tags like "center" and went over hexadecomal colors and some broad design concepts.
Here's the code we wrote in class:
lecture3_spr08.htm

Monday, January 21, 2008

Lecture 2 notes

Here are two files from the second HTML lecture.
WE covered unordered lists, various permutations of the anchor tag, absolute vs. relative paths and all the body tag attributes. We even built a mock FAQ page to demonstrate the concept of anchors. Here are the pages (these are html pages, so they'll load in a web browser. Click "view" -> "source" to see the source code, then sasve it to your computer.
lecture2.htm
lecture2_faq.htm

Lecture 1 notes

Here are the notes from lecture 1, covering the "big eight" tags, basic text formatting, headlines and lists. This is an HTML file, so when you click the link, the page will display in a new browser window. Just "view source," then save it to your computer.

lecture1_spr08.htm

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Welcome Spring 08 students

Here's the course syllabus in pdf format.
To download, right-mouse click the link, go to "save target as" and pick a place on your computer.
syllabus_spr08.pdf