Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Queen of the Code Monkeys

By Laura McClure September 16, 2008
Mozilla Foundation chair Mitchell Baker, arguably the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley, talks about nerdy sex symbols, open-source software—and what it's like to be the only woman in the room, almost all of the time.

Read this article, she's funny.
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/09/inside-the-firefoxs-den.html

Monday, September 8, 2008

Internal links

Read pages 55-63

Add a navigation menu to the top of Mr.s Dube's Chemistry page ("828yourname.htm")
Make sure to add ID tags to the menu and < a href="#idname" > to your h2 section headings

Save as "908yourname.htm" and make sure a copy is in our Web design folder on server1

To see an example of how this works, see our school website's staff directory.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Terms for YB Quiz Fri 8/28

First meeting with Colleen on Wednesday Sep 3rd, so get your questions ready regarding themes, endsheets, and covers.

Here are your terms for THIS week's quiz;
  • SLR
  • DSLR
  • Point-and-shoot
  • Selection
  • Cropping
  • Sizing
  • Design
  • How to shoot football (FB)
  • How to shoot volleyball (VB)
  • How to shoot cross country (XC)
  • How to shoot cheerleading (Ch)

Monday, August 25, 2008

Terms for Fri 8/28 Quiz

Please read as much as you can of "Tutorial 1" in our new, behemoth book. this week.
  • LAN
  • WAN
  • ARPANET
  • WYSIWYG
  • GUI
  • CERN
  • Hypertext
  • Browser
  • W3C
  • Meta
  • Open-source
  • Proprietary
  • SGML
  • XML
  • Hypertext
  • < ul >
  • < li >
  • < ul type="disc" > •
  • < ul type="circle" >
  • < ul type="square" >

Friday, August 22, 2008

Attribute/Value Tags

Here are examples of the additional attribute tags which I had you use in your "822name.htm" assignments;

< element attribute="value", anotherelement anotherattribute="anothervalue" >

< img src="violet", height="15%", width="15%" >

< a href="http://mal-com.blogspot.com", target="_new" > Click here for mal•com Senior Pictures < /a >

Have a great weekend Webheads!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Terms for vocab quiz on Fri 8/22

You can now access our file on the school server at;
"\\Server1\archive" That's where we'll save our pictures before they get uploaded and any layouts that we work on for assignments in InDesign and whatever other elements we end up needing. Here are your terms for tomorrow's quiz-

  • Cover
  • Endsheets
  • Title Page
  • Opening Section
  • Dividers (Division Pages)
  • Sections
  • Closing
  • Content
  • Audience
  • Secondary Audience
  • History book
  • Reference book
  • Public Relations book

Pre-Instructional Drawings

  • Person due Fri 8/15
  • Chair due Thur 8/21
  • Face due Fri 8/22
  • Self-Portrait due Mon 8/25

Please read chapters 1 & 2 by Monday 8/25

I have ordered new books for Taryn & Christian