Nov 3, 4 2010

So Tuesday was the first part of the test.... I didn't do as good as I expected, but I did ok... It was a lot of things to remember and I didn't have notes on the majority of the test, but I answered most of the questions correctly, just a couple of hard questions that gave me a headache, but in general it was ok.

The second part on the other hand... I did really good, me and my friend got the highest marks on the class, and that putted me in the lead :D... The test was pretty much like mr. Chiarelli showed us on the review day, just a couple of tricks that I wasn't expecting, but I figured out most of them...

Today we were introduce to some pages that give style sheets for free, that way we can start to prepare for our own web page :)

Eddy

Nov 1, 2010

So all we have been doing is reviewing for the test, apparently this is like the last big test, so we better get a good mark, the seems to have 2 parts, a written one and one on the computers. We got some review for both of them, I'm guessing some parts from last year's test, so far it looks easy.

There are some questions on the review I don't know and Mr. Chiarelli does't want to tell us, so I'm gonna have to experiment to find the answers, as for the second part of the test, Mr. Chiarelli took the review up and showed us basically what we needed to do, its all matter of remembering those things and I guess I'll be good or the test

Eddy

October 27 & 28, 2010

Yesterday we took CSS a step further by creating classes. Before you would create a style for a specific command but you obviously don't want that, you want a style different parts regardless of weather is the same command or a different, thats when classes come handy. Basically to create a class you do the same as yesterday, the difference is that this time you don't apply the style to a command but instead to a variable if you will, and then every time you want that style to be used, you just convoke it by naming the class at the beginning, really neat stuff :D

Today we learned how to position stuff, and to be honest, I've been waiting for these since we started this class :P .... this is really useful when you are creating your web page, because you don't want everything perfectly lined, and most important, you sometimes want thing on top of things, and thats when this comes handy, once again, dreamweaver way is way easier than 1 page, so I'm just gonna do it there :)

Eddy

October 26, 2010

And today we finally started with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) :) .... these were basically CSS designed to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. With these technique you can tell the computer to make something to the design every time you use a command like h3 or something else.

Like always, sir showed us both 1st page and dreamweaver, and this time there is no doubt dreamweaver is the way to go, normally it will take a second program for 1 page to be useful, unless you memorize thousands of commands, but everything is ready in dreamweaver, and the layout makes everything way easier and more organized :)

October 21, 2010

Today we looked at iFrames, or floating frames. Unlike frames, iframes creates a frame that sits in the middle of a reg non-frames page. So technically instead of having a whole portion of a page, it will create a custom square in the middle of the page to be positioned wherever is necessary, again a useful tool for later on.

Like yesterday, Mr. Chiarelli showed us how to do it in both First Page and DreamWeaver, and again, I liked DreamWeaver better, it makes everything so much easier! We also took a look to navegation bars, which is probably the best situation to use frames, you have yo nav bar on the main page, and then when you click on a menu, the page will be displayed on the other frame.

Eddy

October 20, 2010

Today we started off by doing frames using 1st page. A frame is something like a page inside a page or so to speak, when you click a link instead of going to whole new page, it stays in that page and displays the result in a part of that page, its really neat new concept that can be helpful for some pages.

We then did the same but this time using DreamWeaver, which I think is way easier, I really don't know how Mr. Chiarelli can like 1st page better, DreamWeaver does all the dirty work for you, you only need to use a tool to draw the frame and then specify the target on the link, thats it! :P

Eddy

October 13, 2010

Today we are making templates!!!. Templates are really useful because it helps you to be efficient and consistent with all your pages, meaning the same look to every single page (menus, colors, design, etc).... For now we are gonna use DreamWeaver templates, which are good enough to make some simple design, we were also given our assignment... create our first web page and upload it to the internet!.

To make a template you basically just do it on a page, add some tables, some colours, some text, etc, and a part where you can actually modify later on, and just save it as a template. Next when you create a new page, instead of creating a blank html page, you create a new page with the previous etmplate... and there, you have your template! I think we are ready to start creating some pretty neat stuff, we'll see in or assignment

Eddy