What's Going On? February 24th through February 28th

Web 1

This week we'll be finishing up with lesson 4 and moving on to lesson 5.  Students will have the opportunity to finish up their web pages with links and adding a few finishing touches to their personal web page.  Once we have finished lesson 4, we'll move on to lesson 5: Adding Images.  As we start this lesson, students will be introduced to the powerful, industry-standard web design software: Dreamweaver.  Now that we have a handle on some of the basic coding structure we can allow Dreamweaver to help us with some of the coding.

In our lesson 4 projects we added links by hand (figuring out some pretty complicated file structures).  Now we'll see how easy it is with Dreamweaver!  We'll be able to add links, images and other items with a few clicks of a button.  I must warn students to be cautious about the code that Dreamweaver will create for us.  While much of it is extremely helpful, sometimes Dreamweaver adds a lot of "extras" that aren't really necessary.

Students will be considered "on pace" for the course if they are finished with all projects and lesson review questions through lesson 4 by the end of the day on Monday.


Web 2

This week we'll take another look at some CSS tips and tricks. We'll revisit some of the CSS animation that we created on Friday.  We'll also look to see how we can create an image gallery.  Once we have perfected this practice, students will be able to add an image gallery to their portfolios.

Students will be considered "on pace" for the course if they have completed the home page, the contact page, and the image gallery page for their personal portfolio.