User:Vtaylor/CIS89A Learning Web Design/5. summary

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2019.10

5. Summary - Tables, Forms

These are frequently used features that allow the web to provide data display and collection. These functions make the web much more interactive and useful for so many online activities. These are great to know and interesting to practice.


 * Media section - Be sure to scroll down through the module assignments to the Media section below. There are links to many more resources for the module including video tutorials, examples, references.

Coding projects

Great coding assignment submissions. Nice to see that combining these two topics was worked out. Coding projects don't need to be fancy. Demonstrating all the basic requirements is plenty. If it looks good and you are working with an interesting topic - Great!


 * Keep it simple - Go for correct and complete. One html file, one linked css file. It is ok to keep your coding assignment work simple. Focus on using the required elements, attributes and properties appropriately. There is a lot of information to cover, so spend your time working on getting the basics. Structure your code correctly - head, title, body elements are always required to be correctly coded. Use a linked css code file for styling. Include comments in your code for documentation.


 * Wrapping - positioning images in text. Wrapping the text around the picture looks better with more text so you can see what's happening. For this assignment with html - use align attribute within the img element. There is a better solution with css - next week. https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/image-text-wrap-css-html/


 * Troubleshooting - When you are struggling with a problem, try creating a new web page with just the code you are working on. Browsers are remarkably clever at figuring out what you are doing, even if you are doing it badly. Things will appear to work, even though you have made several mistakes. Start with an empty page.  Add one thing at a time.

Next... 6. CSS Formatting

Fonts are important design elements and need to be included via the CSS embed function. Pages can be designed to be printed as documents. Although they may not be used often, there are several more CSS display tricks worth knowing.