Intermediate CSS Workshop

Intro

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• Intro
• Syllabus
• Grading

Contact

• Chimène
• Minz

Class

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

Week Two Overview

Goals for the Week

• Practice and apply principles of specificity and inheritance
• Learn what liquid design is all about
• Apply liquid design principles to (X)HTML markup using CSS

Reading

• The Cascade, Section 6.4, CSS2.1 Specification
• Calculating Specificity, Section 6.4.3, CSS2.1 Specification
• What is Liquid Design, by Nick Wilson
• CSS Layouts: The Fixed. The Fluid. The Elastic.
• One clean HTML markup, many layouts...

Activities

• Week two discussions and exercises cover:
  • Determination of selector specificity
  • Inheritance problems and issues
  • Liquid design principles
• Practice quiz
• Project assignment
• Peer reviews

Assignments

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