Writing HTML and CSS from the Ground Up
These recordings are of the 5 web developments sesions that took place in early 2008. Each session is about an hour and a half long. Also available for download are the completed HTML code and the completed CSS code (right-click the link and choose "Save As" or "Save Link As"). The images used in the sessions can be downloaded here as well: header.jpg, nav-1.jpg, nav-2.jpg, heron.jpg, arrowtr.gif, and bk_tan.jpg. Again, to download them, right-click the link and choose "Save As" or "Save Link As".
Session 1
(Feb 08 - HTML, XHTML and CSS basics; writing the HTML for a web page, applying CSS to the <body> tag, building a box with CSS): http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p93701827/
Session 2
(March 08 - building a layout with CSS, building a CSS "wrapper" for content, centering content in Internet Explorer): http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p37986187/
Session 3
(April 08 - adding images via HTML, adding images via CSS, working with margin, border and padding values, building a link list to use as a navigation panel, linking to external CSS): http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p13334654/
Session 4
(May 08 - cross-browser compatibility, linking to external CSS, floating images, floating and clearing columns):
part 1 - http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p93125031/
part 2 - http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p27547473/
Session 5
(June 08 - working with different link behaviors, manipulating paragraphs and text with <span> tags and classes, using the <blockquote> tag, building a colored box for visual emphasis.
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