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Today’s Class

  • Assessment Task
  • Inclass Demonstration
  • Feedback

Assessment Task

Use the W3Schools TryIt Editor and Notepad to create the home page for a website of your choice with HTML and CSS.

Content: include a

  • banner with an image and title,
  • menu with 5 menu items. The menu items need to be links. Link them to a file with the name of the menu item (it will be an incomplete link).
  • 2 sections (divs) with text content
  • 1 section with an image
  • footer with a Copyright statement including this year and your name.

The images can be sourced online. Please aim for Creative Commons images. You may use www.morguefile.com or other websites for this purpose.

Work on the assessment in class and during the week and have ready to be handed in as html file. The CSS component can be either internal or as an external CSS document.

Inclass Demonstration

We will work through the steps to create a website in HTML and CSS:

Start off with the HTML script:

We start with the DOCTYPE declaration and the HTML tags followed by the Head and Body tags:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

</html>

_____

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

Note: Add the closing tag straight away to make sure that you do not forget it!

Add your title in the Head as well as your main meta data:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Italian Food For Beginners</title>  (Add your own title here)

<meta name=”keywords” content=”italian, cooking, food, recipy, easy, beginners, step by step” />

<meta name=”description” content=”” />  (Either write your description straight away or do it later. This description will show in a Google search and it is important to write something that will be relevant to the webside/ web page. Keep it short, but make sure not to skip over important information that would get a user to visit your site!)

<meta name=”author” content=”Federico Viola” />(put your name in here!)

</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

Now create your divs in html

It is important to sketch out your site beforehand. Write down all the dimensions for the various elements. Overall dimensions, example: width 960px x height 690px, dimensions of the banner/header, dimensions and format of the menu, dimensions of various content boxes.

Divs are basically spaces that you reserve. They are like 2D boxes that allow you to place content, either images, text, video or audio. You can give the background a colour and you can create outlines.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Italian Food For Beginners</title>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”italian, cooking, food, recipy, easy, beginners, step by step” />

<meta name=”description” content=”This page has Italian recipies for beginners and more advanced chefs. Each recipy has cooking instructions, preparation time and a calorie index.” />

<meta name=”author” content=”Federico Viola” />

</head>

<body>

<div id=”wrapper”>  (This will be the div for the overall webpage. It will be like a frame for all the elements.)

<div id=”header”>

<h1>This is the header/banner</h1>

</div>  (This closes the header div.)

<div id=”container”>  (This will be the div for the menu and content divs)

<div id=”menu”>

<p>Menu</p>

</div>  (This closes the menu div.)

<div id=”content1″>

<p>Content1</p>

</div>  (This closes the content1 div.)

<div id=”content2″>

<p>Content2</p>

</div>  (This closes the content2 div.)

<div id=”content3″>

<p>Content3</p>

</div>  (This closes the content3 div.)

</div>  (This closes the container div.)

<div id=”footer”>

<p>Copyright Statement</p>

</div>  (This closes the footer div.)

</body>

</html>

Now create your CSS

You can create external CSS, in which case you will have to save the CSS file as name.css. This will allow you to change your CSS individually and it is a faster way to update websites. This is particualrly important if you use your standard CSS on  various sites. CSS is not only responsible for colours and style, but is important for standard font and layout sizes. You will need to adjust sizes for your layouts and fonts to suit mobile platforms. (You do not need to do this for the assessment though!)

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Italian Food For Beginners</title>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”italian, cooking, food, recipy, easy, beginners, step by step” />

<meta name=”description” content=”This page has Italian recipies for beginners and more advanced chefs. Each recipy has cooking instructions, preparation time and a calorie index.” />

<meta name=”author” content=”Federico Viola” />

<style> (opens an internal CSS style tag)

#wrapper {;}

#header{;}

#container{;}

#menu{;}

#content1{;}

#content2{;}

#content3{;}

#footer{;}

ul{list-style-type:none;}  (this is the ul tag to be used for the menu later in the body, it defines to have no bullet points)

</style>  (always make sure to close html tags)

</head>

<body>

<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”header”>

<h1>This is the header/banner</h1>

</div>

<div id=”container”>

<div id=”menu”>

<p>Menu</p>

</div>

<div id=”content1″>

<p>Content1</p>

</div>

<div id=”content2″>

<p>Content2</p>

</div>

<div id=”content3″>

<p>Content3</p>

</div>

</div>

<div id=”footer”>

<p>Copyright Statement</p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Add your dimensions to the CSS

You can create external CSS, in which case you will have to save the CSS file as name.css. This will allow you to change your CSS individually and it is a faster way to update websites. This is particualrly important if you use your standard CSS on  various sites. CSS is not only responsible for colours and style, but is important for standard font and layout sizes. You will need to adjust sizes for your layouts and fonts to suit mobile platforms. (You do not need to do this for the assessment though!)

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Italian Food For Beginners</title>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”italian, cooking, food, recipy, easy, beginners, step by step” />

<meta name=”description” content=”This page has Italian recipies for beginners and more advanced chefs. Each recipy has cooking instructions, preparation time and a calorie index.” />

<meta name=”author” content=”Federico Viola” />

<style> (opens an internal CSS style tag)

#wrapper {width:960px;height:690px;margin:0px;}  (the site will go to the edge due to having no margin)

#header{width:960px;height:140px;margin: 10px 0px;background:#3375FF;} (the header will have 10px margins on top and bottom and no margins on the right and left, the background colour has been specified)

#container{width:960px;height:410px;}  (always make sure to use a semi-colon at the end of a CSS declaration)

#menu{width:100px;height:410px;margin-right:10px;background:#3399FF;

#content1{width:410px;height:200px;margin-right:10px;padding:5px;background:#4CCCFF;}

#content2{width:410px;height:200px;margin-right:10px;padding:5px;background:#3375FF;}

#content3{width:410px;height:410px;padding:5px;background:#0099FF;}

#footer{width:960px; height:140px;}

ul{list-style-type:none;}

</style>  (always make sure to close html tags)

</head>

<body>

<div id=”wrapper”>

<div id=”header”>

<h1>This is the header/banner</h1>

</div>

<div id=”container”>

<div id=”menu”>

<p>Menu</p>

</div>

<div id=”content1″>

<p>Content1</p>

</div>

<div id=”content2″>

<p>Content2</p>

</div>

<div id=”content3″>

<p>Content3</p>

</div>

</div>

<div id=”footer”>

<p>Copyright Statement</p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

To be continued

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  1. Sustainability Assessment
  2. Feedback

Sustainability Assessment Task

Please check today’s entry on MyKangan for this class the Sustainability component of the Online Cluster.

Source: morgueFile, Photo by matei

Source: morgueFile, Photo by matei

Today’s online class looks at how to integrate sustainable work practice into a print business in Victoria. Use the links provided or research independently:  Greenfinder | Printers on Greenfinder |Thegreendirectory | Sustainability Victoria | SustainableBusiness.com

Please complete the attached file Assessment Sustainability and upload it to MyKangan.

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Today we will focus on

  • EVERYONE will have created an image with background, foreground, 2 text layers
  • Create an animated GIF

Image With Background, Foreground, 2 Text Layers

Based on last week’s photos that you took create a new Photoshop document:

  • create a background with one of the close-up images that you took last week
  • place the self portrait in front of that layer and use a selection tool (Quick Selection or Magic Wand) to get rid of the white background from your portrait.
  • Add two text layers with your name and the name of this class: Media III

Create an Animated GIF

The teacher will present how to create the animation in class. Please follow the presentation.

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Today’s Class

  • Photoshop Work
  • Assessment 2 – Next term

Photoshop Work

We will use this class to inprove your Photoshop skills and you will be able to work on your website designs for class C1.

Assessment 2: Next Term

Assessment 2 will be conducted next term when you will have a better understanding of how to upload web content.

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