Class:Digital Portfolio 2013/Week 2
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Contents
Last Week
- Introductions
- Discuss Class
- Discuss Wiki
- History of the Internet
- How the internet works for us
This Week
- Review Last Week
- Prepping Images for the Web
- Tools: Text Editors
- HTML / CSS Review
Open Questions
- Is FolioDrop a good solution for my website?
- Added it to the list of Site Building (CMS) Solutions
- Also added a section on the page above outlining key criteria for vetting Site Building Solutions
- What do i need if i want a Wordpress website?
- Video of the conversation below: Quick Wordpress (and Wordpress hosting) overview
Notes
Optimizing Images for The Web
We covered many aspects/techniques related to optimizing your images for the web.
- Two videos below
- Image Format Reference
- I also showed the excellent tool Imageoptim for further compressing your images
Reviewed Text and CSS Editors
We discussed three separate HTML & CSS tools that you should be familiar with for this Semester.
I have created a Text Editors reference page for you here.
Refresher on HTML & CSS
Our first big task is to review HTML & CSS techniques in an effort to get everybody more comfortable hacking away at their websites.
- We reviewed the basic HTML tags:
- We reviewed the HTML tags used for styling regions of pages:
Installed Matthew's TextMate Bundle
1. is it flash or html 2. what happen on a mobile? 3. Can i deep link
Text Editors - TextMate <macromates.com> - http://www.sublimetext.com - espresso
- Title - http://url
- note
Video Notes
Section B
- Quick Wordpress (and Wordpress hosting) overview
- Optimizing Images for the Web Part 1
- Optimizing Images for the Web Part 2
- Pixel Dimensions of the Web
- Tools: TextEditors: TextMate and Sublime
- Basic HTML Elementts
- Styling HTML with CSS
- Installing Matthew's TextMate Bundle and Assignment
Files
- Title - http://url
- note
Assignment
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Bring with you to class next week .
- Description.
