halloween

Class Wednesday, October 30, 2019

 Today’s Goals:

 Today’s featured website:

 What You Learned 1st Quarter:

  • How the internet works, web hosting, and domain registration
  • What browsers are and built-in tools to help with web development
  • Basic HTML– how to set up a basic webpage, how to add images, links, text
  • Computer and internet security basics
  • Basic CSS– how to add a background image and color, how to change the text font, color, and size, how to add a text-shadow
  • How to use a text editor like Notepad++
  • Where to find high quality, free stock images
  • How to edit images using Pixlr.com
  • Basic graphic design techniques
  • What WordPress is and how to use it
  • How to add a web font like Google Fonts to your website
  • Where your work is published: on class website, school website, and school social media
  • 1st quarter survey: click here!  

 HTML and CSS Review

  • Your Questions?
    1. What are your HTML and CSS questions?
  • HTML
    1. What are the 4 important HTML tags we need to use every time we set up a webpage?
    2. What content goes in the head section? What about the body section?
    3. Tricky tags– link, image, anything else?
  • CSS
    1. Where does CSS code go on your webpage? Head or body section?
    2. Find and define selectors, properties, and values. See https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_syntax.asp.
    3. Should CSS ever go in your body section?
    4. We use pointy brackets < > with HTML. We use curly brackets { }, colons : and semi-colons ; with CSS. Find those now on your keyboard.
  • Copying/Pasting Code
    1. Be careful! What do we have to watch out for?
    2. Copying links– what needs to change? What about images?
    3. Copying CSS– where does it go? What needs to change?