BTI220 notes – Thu Jul 25
A number of web client development topics today, including menus, layouts, and images and other media.
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Your professor apologizes for the brevity of these notes, for two major reasons: 1) Lack of time to document my thoughts (which will be covered in the class/lecture session), and 2) The presence of useful and quality material on the web (which will be linked).
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Make progress on the programming assignment
Work due Saturday morning; July 27, at 12:00pm (noon)
Complete details are on the “assignment deliverable/part 1” page
(more to come)
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More about menus
You learned a framework to create a menu from a styled unordered list.
Today, we’ll look at an example of a list that includes nested lists, to create a drop-down menu:
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More about layouts
You learned a framework to create a two-column layout for your content.
Today, we’ll discuss design issues, and more layout choices.
Web Style Guide online – good resource
Let’s look at topics in its chapter 7
DynamicDrive has many layout examples
Here are a few good articles:
In Search of the Holy Grail, by Matthew Levine
Fluid Grids, by Ethan Marcotte
(more to come)
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Working with images and other media
We briefly discuss and introduce media-related topics:
- image
- audio
- video
- canvas
(more to come)
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