Intermediate CSS Workshop

Intro

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• Intro
• Syllabus
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Contact

• Chimène
• Minz

Class

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6

Week One Overview

Goals for the Week

• Brush up on CSS validation
• Solve CSS validation problems
• DOCTYPEs and DOCTYPE switching

Reading

• W3C CSS Validator FAQ
• Validation: Does it Matter?, by Owen Briggs
• Where Our Standards Went Wrong
• Beyond Validation
• Selectors, Chapter 5, CSS2.1 Specification
• Picking a Rendering Mode, by Eric Meyer
• Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype, by Henri Sivonen.

Activities

• Week one discussions and exercises include
  • Validation problems and issues
  • Definition and understanding of DOCTYPEs
  • How to use quirks and strict rendering modes in CSS
• Practice quiz
• Project assignment
• Peer reviews

Assignments

• Read the online material and short lecture notes
• Complete week one practice quiz
• Complete week one project assignment
• Do assigned peer reviews