Learn how to create a vertical navigation bar in a button format. Specify a colour for your buttons, and a font for your text. Use internal CSS (in the head segment).
Learn how to create a horizontal navigation bar in a button format. Specify a colour for your buttons, and a font for your text. Use internal CSS (in the head segment).
Create a Web page with a title, horizontal navigation bar and an image gallery with 6 – 9 images.
Make the buttons active hyperlinks, link them to different posts on this blog. Make the image gallery linked to actual images (use morgueFile) and insert thumbnail images for it as well.
Last week you have created some beautiful web pages for a seaside town. I was very pleased with some of the results. Please still submit your work if you have not already done so.
Check for feedback, a few of you have to add small components that were not yet included.
Create a simple web page for a small fishing village that would be a beautiful spot to visit.
Photo by dieraecherin on morgueFile
Specs for site:
Think of a colour scheme that suits the theme of a maritime, small seaside port and apply this colour scheme to the web page
Title: name of your town or name of web page in title (how it will be displayed in the title bar of the web browser)
Heading: (H1 in Helvetica) This can be an enticing heading or the name of the town and the country (or state)
Photo by dieraecherin on morgueFile
Text: (p in Gill Sans) This is a write up about your little town. Feel free to borrow from the text below based on Apalachicola, Florida and borrowed from a SmarterTravel:
Name, Country
Population: 2,231 The Catch: Oysters, shrimp, redfish, mullet
In its 19-century heyday, this northwestern [name of country] town was the third largest port of the Gulf of [name]. Today more than 900 historical homes and buildings remain. Old net factories and ship chandleries are now trendy shops, restaurants, and galleries; meticulously restored homes are B&Bs. But [name of town] is hardly a polished tourist area like nearby [name] Island. Nearly half of the hardworking locals wear rubber oyster boots around town. They harvest oysters (90% of those sold in [name of country]) by hand with large tongs in small wooden skiffs. Spend an afternoon on the beach, kayaking the Forgotten Coast barrier islands, or at the 1921 Dixie Theatre. Local Eats: Hole in the Wall Seafood & Raw Bar serve some of the freshest local oysters, and the popular buttermilk pie sells out almost daily. For a table overlooking the [name] River, try Owl Cafe or Boss Oyster.
A table of 3 x 3 images (each square 200px x 200px or 250px x 250px) found on morgueFile cropped in morgueFile and transformed into HTML. Copy the HTML code and insert the link to the photo into your HTML file.
List of ten reasons to visit the seaside town (make them up and make them fun)
Use the TryIt Editor to edit the file and then save your file with TextEdit (or Notepad) as a HTML with the text set as Plain Text and UTF-8.
I am glad to announce that MyKangan is now fully functional. You will still be able to visit the content on this WordPress blog. Above are the links to previous classes.
So, you might feel like you are starting to get a feel for how to use HTML in TextEdit (or NotePad). HTML is reasonably easy as long as you approach it systematically. The content for today’s class is directly related to the chapters in W3Schools HTML Tutorials: HTML CSS, HTML Images, HTML Tables and HTML Lists. You can simply click on the links for each point below.
Last week we looked at the three ways to include CSS styles in an HTML document. Today we will just look at external CSS documents (created in a text editor). By now you should be aware of the benefits of using external CSS documents:
It is easy and faster to createone CSS stylesheet and having the link to in each HTML document
It is faster to change one CSS stylesheet than changing the CSS code in numerous HTML documents
Obviously you have learned in last week’s class that you place a link to an external CSS style sheet into the head of a HTML document:
<body>
<h1>The text in this heading is formatted in an external stylesheet called styles.css</h1>
<p>The paragraph text is formatted by the same external stylesheet</p>
</body>
</html>
Please notice the difference between the Head and Body sections of the HTML file. The Head element includes only the link to the CSS stylesheet. Think for a moment and ask yourself what other components you could place in the Head section! (We covered that in last week’s class)
The Body section has all the visible parts of the website. The heading and the paragraph.
A CSS stylesheet uses different brackets:
[NOTE: This is code for an external CSS, created in a text editing program like TextEdit or NotePad and saved as styles.css]
body {background-color:#98FB98;}
h3 {color:#000080; text-align:center;}
p {color:#000080; text-align:center;font-family:”Garamond”; font-size:20px;}
This stylesheet specifies
the colour of the background
the text colour of the h3 heading
a central alignment for the h3 heading
the text colour of the paragraph
the alignment of the paragraph and
the font of the paragraph: Garamond at 20px
Please note that more properties can be added to a line with a semi colon in between, before the closing bracket place a semi colon.
Click on the image to view the syntax (style of writing) of a CSS document on W3Schools:
This section is looking at how to insert an image into a website.
In HTML you need to use an image tag: <img>
The <img> tag is empty which means that it does not need a closing or end tag. The reason is that you are only inserting one image per <img> tag, so there is no need for an end tag.
After the tag you will need to insert attributes:
src: this is the Source attribute, which defines where the browser will find the image to upload. This will be a url (web address) if your HTML, CSS and image files have been uploaded to the url.
So, notice that the closing bracket is not placed right after img, but after all the attributes. It is smart to put all your images in an image folder. The example shows that the image is a GIF and it is placed in the images folder. Make sure to specify the path with a forward slash / and always check your spelling. If your images folder is called images and you mistakingly spell: <img src=”http://www.w3schools.com/image/boat.gif”> the image will not display!
Besides the image you will want to display alternate text. Alternate text will show if the image does not load, the attribute is: alt=”image name”. See the revised example:
Let us also look at the option of you working from your computer. The website has not been uploaded, so it is still sitting on your computer. The reference to the image location is always relative to where you have the HTML file. All this means is if you have your HTML file on your USB in a folder called “HTML class” and your image in a folder called images (inside the HTML class folder) – do you follow?- this would be the src attibute:
All questions related to the Head section of an HTML file can be researched at W3Schools-Head
All questions related to CSS can be researched at W3Schools-CSS
Good folder/file structure is paramount in web design. It is a beginner’s mistake to upload a website with all its content and to find that files do not link, eg images do not load. The link below has a good explanation on folder structure:
Photo Montage by SGlider12 on Webdesign.org – Click image for great Gimp tutorial
Uncle Sam Wants You, WWI Propaganda Poster for US Army recruits, Design by James Montgomery Flagg, 1916, image found at: Live Auctioneers
The grass layer has been turned into a clipping mask with the shape of the rabbit below.
Fruity Design – This is great for a menu, very appetizing thumbnails – found at: WeddingPhotography.com
Pink Ribbon Day – Swiss International Style Reference – by Hwan Rochanabuddhi
The Glossy Reflection is transparent on top and gets whiter towards the bottom.
Text and Shapes – This design lends itself to an interactive use – found at: Smashing Magazine (click image for inspiring article on table of content design)
Concept for Gallery Screnshot
Experimental Photomontage by Robert Heinecken
Photomontage: Amir Ebrahim Photography
Light Streaks – Courtesy of: PhotoshopEssentials
Italian movie poster found on Abduzeedo.com
Free Transform and Ctrl – I am loving it!!!
Text-based Table of Content – Very Graphic and Black and White- found at: Smashing Magazine (click image for inspiring article on table of content design)
Luminescent Lines – Courtesy of: PSDLearning
Photo by ariadna on morgueFile
Photo by frenchbyte on morgueFile
Contemporary design in style of Construcitvism by Teo Brito found at LauraGreen92 – click image for more information and link to her blog
Source: morgueFile, Photo by matei
Work by Egon Schiele, found at Mom.org
Table of Content from Textbook – This design lends itself to an interactive use – found at: Smashing Magazine (click image for inspiring article on table of content design)
Finding the Right Candidate for a Job… – Photo AdamRiley from www.projectnoah.org
Courtesy of The Art of Mass Effect Universe’, 2012
Based on a photo by delboysafa from morgueFile.com
Custom Shapes and Custom Shape Icon
Courtesy of The Art of Mass Effect Universe’, 2012
Mosaic of Sofia Coppola – by Maurizio Galimberti – www.mauriziogalimberti.it
Grassy Rabbits
Illustration by Tavis Coburn found on DzineBlog.com
Layers in Photoshop are like a Collage of images stuck on top of each other…
Illustration by Kate Miller, found on DzineBlog.com
Photo by matthewbridges on morgueFile.com
Geese in Ameland, Photo by Frans Schouwenburg
Vista Lighting Effect – Courtesy of: Tutorial9
The Face by drfranken found on ChromoArt.de
Found at Inc.com
Photo by dharder on morgueFiles.com
Outlined text changed in size and colours dropped into the individual letters with Eyedropper tool using LMB + Alt
Setting the grid up.
Photo by clarita on www.morguefile.com
Study – Lines and Grace Kelly – by Federico Viola photo: courtesy of GettingCheeky.com and curved lines wallpaper: courtesy of FreeFever.com
Michael Pointing in GTA V – Courtesy of Rockstar
Colours, Numbers and Boxes – very happy and alive, personally I do not like the distortion of the word content – found at: Flickr
Your Lipstick Needs You, an entertaining take by Digital Media Artist Samantha Cain. Courtesy of: Samantha Cain, http://www.behance.net/samanthacain
Photo by clarita on morgueFile
Study – Lines and Grace Kelly – by Federico Viola photo: courtesy of GettingCheeky.com and curved lines wallpaper: courtesy of FreeFever.com
Examples of Output and Display for web-content. Image: live.surveyshack.com
Image source: Data Center Knowledge
Work by Justin Anderson
Some of us have there most enjoyable moments in nature at the beach, Photo by rivediamoci on morgueFiles
ruthworkx -http://ruthworkx.files.wordpress.com
From ‘Henri’s Walk to Paris’ 1962 – children’s book by Saul Bass Found at: Brainpickings.org
Illustration: Tavis Coburn – Illustration for for an article predicting trends in Apple’s mobile strategy. Found on: TavisCoburn.com
I Want You – Emily Strange, The lovable Emily Strange came to life in 1991, designed by Nathan Carrico for Santa Cruz Skateboards. She is referred to as a counterculture icon. I would just call her a sceptic. Image found at: Kollectable Kaos
Screenshot of Endless Alphabet 2, courtesy of AppsPlayground.com
Photo by agathabrown on morgueFile
Multimedia Production Cycle – This image is under the Creative Common Agreement, you can use it but will need to reference this site: www.classoffederico.wordpress.com
Based on photo by hotblack from morgueFile.com
Photo by hotblack on morgueFile.com
Milk Poster – Swiss International Style Reference – by Annabel Stephen Salip
Illustrator unknown – found at: Ephemera – World of Rare Books
This is a template for a business website found at TemplateMonster. It is interesting in the sense that it breaks up the main image as part of the navigation. The sound it comes with is annoying.
Image Source: www.photoshopessentials.com
Illustration by Gary Neill found on Dzineblog.com – http://garyneill.com/ http://garyneill.tumblr.com/
Illustration: Jamie McKelvie – Art Brut Record
Photo by Seemann on morgueFile.com
Based on image by hotblack on morgueFile.com – F.Viola
Swiss travel poster from 1934 by Herbert Matter – Source: http://swisstype.wordpress.com/work/
From ‘Henri’s Walk to Paris’ 1962 – children’s book by Saul Bass Found at: Brainpickings.org
Screenshot – 82 Everyone is a Marketer by Seth Godin from What’s Your Story by Joyce Hostyn
Illustration by Jessie Ford, found on DzineBlog.com
Photo by mconnors on morgueFile
‘For Great Road Trips: Switzerland’ Poster by Herbert Matter in (Swiss) International Style – Source: http://swisstype.wordpress.com/work/
“Step into my office” Source: The Age, click image for link
Lines and Gradients- Courtesy of: psdtuts+
A Beautiful Piece by Aerosol found on his Facebook
Image from morgueFile by lemai13
What Time is it Now? by King_Bobbles
Based on photo by xandert found on morgueFile
Photo by DTL on morgueFiles
He loves OHS! – Photo by Karpati Gabor on morgueFile
Only practice will help you learn! Photo by BreonWarwick on morgueFile
The concept was used on the German side as well with this ‘Auch du sollst beitreten zur Reichswehr’ [You too should join the German Army], design by Julius Engelhard, Image: courtesy of mental_floss
Text and Shapes – This design lends itself to an interactive use – found at: Klafferty.com
The calming effect of horizontal lines, image: courtesy of flickr.com, Photographer: jaikdean
The gentle curve of the river and the light green tones of the grass give this image a calming feel. The montains and the clouds have a less calming effect. Image: courtesy of Icon Photography School – http://www.photographyicon.com/line/
Typographic with Colours and Photos – The use of large numbers is effective and the low opacity of the boxes works, personally, I find it looks a bit dated- found at: JuxtaPost.com
Illustration: Jamie McKelvie – Suburban Glamour Comic Series
Peace- Swiss International Style Reference – by Maryam Chananeh
Vertical lines of a dark fence, image courtesy of p.ic – Photo Internet Collection – www.photoic.wordpress.com, photographer: Federico Viola
Massive Attack – The Essential Mix
Illustration by Jessie Ford, found on DzineBlog.com
Using the Reflect tool (o) to reflect the i downwards as if it has collapsed in front.
Couple found at http://frenchbydesign.blogspot.com.au
Screenshot from What’s Your Story by Joyce Hostyn
Photo by mcconnors on morgueFile
Britons, Lord Kitchener Wants You! Propaganda poster design from WWI by Alfred Leere. Image: courtesy of WorldWarEra.com
Based on photo by dhester from morgueFile.com
Good Morning! Photo: wallyir, from: morgueFile.com