April 26

Finish your movies!
http://www.morguefile.com/ is a site with an amazing collection of free free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use. Thanks to David for this great site!

Here is a site that has an audacity tutorial. You can use this if you wish to learn how to edit soundfiles http://www.edhsonline.org/other/audacity/

Now you have add your movie to an html document and upload to your folder....this may take some time as the files are large. Here's mine http://mhsstudents.org/randall/movies/

April 25

Nice job yesterday with your Picture slideshows using Movie Maker.
Please bring in a CD or mp3 player that can connect to the PC. We are going to use Audacity to add music to your movie. Those who dare can also record naration! If you made a quick movie yesterday why not create another? It's 2 weeks till Mother's day....how about making an Mother's day slide show instead of buying one of those generic boring Mother's day cards!

April 24

Welcome back from vacation. Sounds as if everyone had a good one. Great job in "Guys and Doll" Stephen!
Today we will start working with Movie Maker 2. I will give you a hand out that has directions for your first project.
You will need 12 pictures. Bring them in on a flash drive, a CD or even your camera. If you have then on the Internet at a site you can access from school that would be even better.

April 13

I am still looking for something fun for Friday 13th!

Try and make an animated text image for your websites

http://www.3dtextmaker.com/cgi-bin/3dtext.pl

April 12

Start a new css page.

Include all the minimal requirements for a correctly formatted web page.

Use the handout to create an menu that would be located at the bottom of the page.
Whatever else you include is up to you.

If you finish this return to your previous css page.

http://www.mhsstudents.org/randall/csslessons/fruitcolumn.html

April 11

Make sure you have uploaded the last assignment to your csslessons folder.

There are few terms you should know

selector
element
property
value
inherited
css

Please continue researching ways to decorate your page.
Here's my latest
http://www.mhsstudents.org/randall/csslessons/fruitcolumn.html

Notice the links, addition of a picture and the list as well as the dash border

April 10

Please finish your adaptation of
http://www.mhsstudents.org/randall/csslessons/pageone.htm

We are now going to work with columns
Go to http://www.mhsstudents.org/randall/csslessons/columnpage.htm


Use mine as your template but edit the page to have your colors, your text, your text formatting.....notice I have a background image.

Can you give the page a different background?

You can use the handout reference guide

Another great CSS tutorial can be found at http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/Cascading_Style_Sheets.htm

April 9

Please finish your Google Pages website.
It must be a minimum of 3 pages.
Email the website address to christine.randall@gmail.com

Continue working on css
Today we will discuss <div> and <span> tags

You need to create a css folder in your folder at mhsstudents.org
You must put your css document in that folder by the end of class.

The css should include coding for text...include color, align, indent, font, text-transform, text-decoration, set margins for the page.

Use http://www.mhsstudents.org/randall/csslessons/pageone.htm if you need to copy and example

April 3

Continue with CCS and formatting text.


1.Change hyperlink values using css
2.Add background color to your text
3.Change the size of your text
4.Change text to bold and Italics
5.Change spacing of text
6.Insert borders below the text
Here are tutorials to help.


http://www.htmlcenter.com/tutorials/tutorials.cfm/55/CSS/

http://www.echoecho.com/csstext.htm

http://wendypeck.com/css101.html

http://freecsstutorial.com/fct-csstext.htm

If you are looking for text why not pick a department in school and create new html for their course descriptions. One page for each course.

April 2

CSS

If you read Chapter 7 in you text book you will a detailed explanation of CSS

Cascading Style Sheets.

The newest standards require html to be the code for the content and CSS will take on the responsibility or decorating your page. Coding for CSS can be within the html body but most often is in the head section of your page.
You can also write individual css files when you want your styles to apply to several webpages in one site

CSS Order

A browser style sheet….all browsers have default style sheets. These are common to all white background, black text in Times New Roman, blue links and purple visited links.

A user style sheet ….a view of the a website has the ability to change the settings on the browser of their computer. You can change your browser’s default text font and size and even color

Author style sheets the person who develops the webpage controls the look of the page using < style> </style> tags

Html….if you code design information into your webpage …this will dominate all of the above.

CCS….1.html
2 author creating style
3 user style settings in browser-
4 default settings in browser.


Why use CSS?

Author created style sheets
Are easy to maintain, one change can change several areas of your site or even several pages
Take less code so the file size is smaller
Work better with other media such as cell phones and web page readers for the blind
When used properly advanced CSS with give you more control over the design of the page




You first need a selector . The selector selects the elements in html that will be affected by the rule set. This is everything up to but not including the {


h1
h2
p

are examples of selectors....look familiar? These are also the opening tags in your html coded pages

Next you need the declaration block
h1{…}
h2{…}
p{…}

are examples of selectors with declaration blocks

Next you will need declarations in the declaration blocks
h1{ text-align: center;}
h2{ font-style: italic; }
p{color: maroon; }

Please be very careful with the placement of the colon and the semi-colon




Go to http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp
And then to Text “select the color of text”
You can practice the text CSS styles



Assignment
Create a basic web page following the requirements below.
Do not format the text, alignment or color.

Your page should have the following elements:

• Document Declaration for transitional above the opening html
• html,head,title, body tags
• A level one heading that includes your name.
• A short paragraph describing something interesting about yourself
• A level two heading saying something like "My Favorite Places on the Internet"
• A paragraph describing the things you like to do on the Internet
• Save it as me.htm in new folder called csslessons

Now create css and locate it between <style> </style> which are located in the head tags
Create css for the selectors h1, h2 and p.
h1 should be centered h2 italicized and p maroon colored text

Use the tutorial at http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp to help you.

You can have multiple declarations for a selector

h1{text-align: center; font-style: italic; color: maroon;} Give it a try!

save this page as aboutme.htm in your csslessons folder