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Class Resources for New Students

Just a few class resources that new students should be aware of: Information about class resources including: Job search, class procedures, holidays, session dates, attendance, file management, book discounts, software discounts, and ergonomics can be found by visiting the course home page at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us and clicking the link named Current Students in the orange menu bar. Check the online version [...]

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November 17th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Class Notes, Web Development |

Resources for Designing for Handheld Devices

It is very important for you to develop an understanding of designing for handhelds. The book that we are currently using in class is rather “sparse” on the subject. I have pulled together some resources for handheld devices and CSS. Stylesheets for handheld devices The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev Mobile Web Design ~ The Series Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your [...]

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November 15th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in CSS, XHTML & Coding |

Welcome New Students!

Welcome new students! We all hope that you will enjoy the program. There are a couple of articles that I would like you to read today: Important Notes for Students Starting the XHTML Book HTML Character Entities Now for some goodies from around the web: Tracy shared a great resource with me for used books, Abebooks. The prices are terrific [...]

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Advisory Committee Roundup

On Monday, November 7, 2005 we held our semi-annual advisory committee meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to allow members of industry to review our curriculum and offer suggestions for improvement. Our advisers were Jim Espinoza, the original webmaster for Hotmail, now a consultant and Tony Davis a developer and illustrator. One of my major concerns was the amount [...]

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November 10th, 2005 | 6 Comments | Posted in Class Notes, Web Development |

Orientation and advisory committee meeting

Happy Monday everyone! Today we have new student orientation and an advisory committee meeting. Yikes! I would like to ask that you help each other, as I will be pretty tied up with both events. Here are a few web sites to visit while I’m helping our new classmates to get started: Website Layout Cookbook – A visual reference for [...]

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November 7th, 2005 | Comments Off | Posted in Color, Planning & Organization, Web Development |

CSS Multi-Column Layout Resources

I encourage you to use CSS instead of tables for your XHTML Additional Cases and projects. Creating a multi-column layout with CSS is not always easy. The first thing you should do is determine how you want your page or pages to layout on paper before you ever begin coding (I will really appreciate this when I am helping you!). [...]

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November 3rd, 2005 | 4 Comments | Posted in CSS |

Keeping Our Classroom Tidy & Running Smoothly

Food and Drink Lately, our room has been looking more like a cafeteria than a classroom; food and drink items are being left all over the room. It’s like a treasure hunt when I do mine final class inspection at closing. I was disturbed last night when I found a large drink next to the classroom projector; the other day [...]

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November 3rd, 2005 | 1 Comment | Posted in Class Notes |

Mani Sheriar Blog!

Mani Sheriar, a former student and successful designer, has started a blog to accompany her beautiful site. Mani offers CSS and XHTML tips and discussion on her site designs. This is definately a site that you want to watch, I’m sure she’ll be a constant source of amazement for all of you! For you Scott Kelby fans there is now [...]

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Useful and fun!

Position is Everything, a tremendous resource on CSS and standards development, has several new articles available: CSS Hacks and IE7 In Search of the One True Layout On Having Layout Issue 206 is available at ALA, A List Apart. It contains another two article that are worth reading: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign and Attack of the Zombie Copy. [...]

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October 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments | Posted in CSS, Other, Books & Fun Stuff, Web Development |

Mix and Match

Dustin Diaz has put together a very nice CSS Shorthand Guide. What’s nice about this guide is that it includes the default value for the property values so you don’t have to guess at what will display if you don’t include a value in your shorthand. CSS Selectors, Part 3 is now available at 456 Berea Street! Here are the [...]

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