Learning Journal 10
This week has been kind of slow in terms of what I have done relating to this class. As I am writing this, I in a LA for a new job that I started. I have been gone since Wednesday and this has taken up the majority of my time this week. In light of that though, I did have a chance to some things related to web design outside of the class.
In my Creating Online Media class, we are getting ready for our first major design test. To help us be prepared for that, the teacher gave us an application assignment. For that assignment, he gives a picture of how he wants the website designed and we work to achieve that goal. There were some cool things that we learned doing it.
One of those was about modify text. With the assignment we are also given an HTML files that was already designed for us and we were not supposed to modify it. In the picture that the teacher made of the site the title of the site was big and not bold. At first I could not figure out how to do that because the title was an h1.
I was later directed to this site: http://brotherjudkins.com/code/introcss.html. The site allows you to modify the CSS on the left side of the page and see the real time changes on the right side of page. In the actual site that I was building, I modified the font-weight to normal and was able to get the h1 to not be bold. With the site I was also able to create a hover effect that included a background color that extended across the page.
With my group and the project that we are doing in CIT 230, we are still having Julie that has missed a lot. We decided that we cannot rely on her to lead the effects with CSS so we have decided to do that ourselves.