[Year 12 IPM] Re: [Year 12 Its] Creating a CSS Based Website - The Journey

[Bill Kerr]

good on you, Keith, your learning style and communication is inspirational

Great diagram on page 2 explaining the div structure

Fascinating how you went about selecting the colours

Impressed that you checked against so many different browsers

I use HTML-Kit too but have found that it doesn't render correctly in it's
Preview screen, I need to edit in HTML-Kit but load in the browser - I still
like the editing capabilities for both XHTML and CSS provided by HTML-Kit
but their poor Preview is an annoyance

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/cheat-sheets/css-cheat-sheet
is a very useful css cheat sheet

I think css is both artistic and also would get students engaged in some of
the fiddly things required for programming - as well as being the modern and
"correct" way of doing web pages - disability access and all that - thanks
for getting me interested in it again - I hope others follow your example
and give it a go - as you say, you do have to do it to get it

I've done some further css upgrades on my intro page here but it still needs
more work
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/

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Bill Kerr
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On 1/9/06, Keith Richardson <keithcr at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> I have published a five page story of the making of the 3in6-2006
> website based on css and html.
> It can be downloaded from:
>
> http://3in6.openlab.net.au/resources/2006/W01-Developing-a-CSS-and-HTML-Based-Website.doc
>
> Why write it?
> It took me three years to pluck up enough courage to break new ground
> (new to me that is) and try to use css.
> Two teachers finally gave me the push - Brett Davies who has created
> some wonderful css sites in Victoria was most encouraging and a fund of
> excellent practical advice, and Des Hardy who presented an outstanding
> session at the 2005 VITTA Conference called "Web Standards".
> After Brett and Des I felt that my excuses were groundless, but still I
> had to actually do it. Perhaps this short story will give others the
> inspiration to try css for themselves too. That is why I have written
> and published it.
>
> All the best for an exciting and satisfying 2006.
>
> Regards, Keith
> Keith Richardson
> IPM List Moderator
> Head of ICT, Leibler Yavneh College
> Elsternwick
> Ph: 03.9528.4911
> k.richardson at yavneh.vic.edu.au
>
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