Assignment #3
Create a minimum of five html pages that form a non-linear narrative, which
all link directly to one another. Use CSS for all layout and styling.
Phase One, Due: Monday, Feb. 17
Collect all content.
Optimize and size all images.
Layout your documents as simple HTML, using only the tags available in XHTML
Basic, and only using them to indicate content and not to hack a layout, e.g.,
use <blockquote> only for an extended quotation.
For the meanings of the
tags see:
Wilbur Quick
Reference to HTML 3.2
Overview of all
HTML 3.2 Elements
from the Web Design
Group
Do final, ideal layout mockups in Illustrator &/or Photoshop.
Phase 2: Applying Styles with CSS to control presentation. Due 2.19
Final: Due 2.24
Medium: Text with Image on the Internet.
File Size Limit: Think WWWeb.
Required Elements:
Text: At least two paragraphs of differing significance, and one level
of heading per page.
Images: At least two images per page. NO images may be used for text.
Links: All pages must link to each other.
Richness. Providing authors with a rich set of rendering effects increases the richness of the Web as a medium of expression. Designers have been longing for functionality commonly found in desktop publishing and slide-show applications. Some of the requested rendering effects conflict with device independence, but CSS2 goes a long way toward granting designers their requests.
2.4 CSS design principles -- W3C