[Year 12 IPM] CSS Critique Invited - to Laurie from Keith

[Bill Kerr]

thanks Keith, your enthusiasm is contagious - I'm a bit rusty and need a
push to further develop my css skills

Laurie, I like your site
http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au/~sav/web_101/02.html
looks great, nice lessons

> alternate style sheet via View menu
that looks great, I'll be using that!!
suggest you put clear instructions on the page about doing that, some might
miss it, I would have unless you had explicitly pointed it out

> web developer firefox extension
thanks for the reminder about this, I've tried before, will try again in a
sec

I like the back to basics raw XHTML and CSS approach using notepad

I wrote some lessons using notepad to develop web pages for year 9s at my
school. We have 3 or 4 different teachers each year teaching from notes and
it surprised me that they have for the last 2 or 3 years all declared
themselves to be very happy doing it with notepad. I had thought that they
would have applied pressure for a visual editor.

The lesson sequence is:
1) find the lyrics of a song or poem you like and some matching pics
2) follow the worksheets to develop 4 different web page versions of this
same song
a) just HTML
b) simple style for headings, background colour, links
c) heading in a box
d) watermark background image
e) simple menu

I can put the worksheets and exemplar on my website if anyone is interested
just yell out

I've recently discovered notepad2
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
which has syntax highlighting for HTML

So I thought in 2006 I'd ask the year 9 teachers to have a look at both
notepad2 and NVU, which is an open source visual editor
http://www.nvu.com/and ask them which way they want to go

--
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr.blogspot.com/
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm

On 12/27/05, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Keith,
>
> Thanks for the feedback - this site has been an inspiration! But if you
> really want to see what you can do with CSS and a bit of design sense -
> visit
>
> http://www.csszengarden.com
>
> and look at some of the contributions. I hope you're using Firefox,
> because 1) it is better with CSS positioning and background images than
> IE;
> 2) unlike IE it displays PNG files properly; 3) it has an extension called
> "Web developer" that shows the blocks with their ids and classes and
> will load the css file so you can examine the code (you need to install
> it via the Extensions update tool); and, 4) it can use alternative style
> sheets via the View menu (You'll notice my web_101 pages can be viewed
> with alternate styles).
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Laurie
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:36:13PM +1100 or thereabouts, Keith Richardson
> wrote:
> > Laurie - in one word: Beautiful, in two: Bloody Awesome!
> > You have set me on a new path - thank you. I intend implementing these
> > incredible Myer effects.
> > Ciao, Keith
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:41:03 +1100, "Laurie Savage"
> > <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> said:
> > > Keith, I ransacked my archives and found the link to eric Meyer's
> demo.
> > >
> > > http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html
> > >
> > > --
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