CSC151.02 2003F, Class 5: Cascading Style Sheets Admin * Dancing tractors. 5:30 p.m. today. Near Pizza hut. Be there. * Read "Beginning Scheme" * Homework 1 assigned. Overview * Questions or comments on HTML lab? * Questions or comments on Cascading Style Sheets? * Do the Lab * Reflect Why is the following HTML invalid?
I'm very glad to have Peter in this class. Because of his ability to give instructions for making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I'm sure that he will figure out how to develop elegant solutions in Scheme.
When you follow the guidelines, you actually get a Web page. --- Let's make those ugly and bland pages look cool and hard-to-read Cascading style sheets: The "web community's" agreed upon standard. A thesis of the essay: * It's easy to set the appearance of pieces of text A conclusion from reading the essay * It doesn't look that easy --- Let's try the lab and see what's really easy/hard/confusing. --- Important moral: People work at different speeds. Faster people are not necessarily smarter. People who are faster early in the semester are not necessarily faster later in the semester. So ... was it easy or hard? Did anyone do anything particularly "interesting" with the page? Why? * Fast way to make pages look pretty (or pretty ugly) * Concise way to make pages look " " * Provide a uniform identity for the site * Something to do when you're bored