Welcome To My Course Project Directory

The following projects have been created as a way to explore front-end Web design and development.

Main Course Projects

• My First Page

  This was our first page. We worked with fonts, paragraphs, headings, links, lists, colors, Adobe Dreamweaver software, servers, images, formating, URLs, styles, comments, containers, divisions, head and body codes, margins, padding, html, css and more.

  It's been great, with each new project we glean a little more information. It's great watching a page come together, balancing colors like musical harmonies. Reminds me of "Chroma the Great, a character in the book, The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster. Chroma's job is to conduct the orchestra that colors every day; without him and the instruments, the world would have no color at all. Chroma, whose name means ''color,'' is very gaunt and looks just like a conductor's baton.

• Squint Studio Build-Along

  With this build-along, we still had our training wheels but we evolved to an external css file and were able to implement a number of interesting design features with image borders and placement, navigation lists and links and design features and accessibility. The Dreamweaver software began to come into focus, especially with the css designer alongside the html code or live view, and how to create and edit rules, choose selectors, properties and make declarations, and become familiar with semantics and syntax.

• Final Site

  With the Final Site we used the skills learned through the semester to build a page or pages illustrating a topic of our choosing, among a number of basic categories. We were encouraged to work and research independently, with not only a required set of skills, but also with amnple resources to forge ahead, a much as we were able. We were aided comprehensively with establishing a basic framework, while supported in blue sky creativity. It was acutally a quite engaging and fun approach.

  I chose to highlight a personal project as a tutorial for a general breakfast recipe. I called it "Breakfast With Rip Van Winkle." My novel ingredients promoted two reletaviely obscure traditional foods, still enjoyed by cultures around the world, but in mainstream America today, relegated to pockets of indegenous, immigrant and regenerative segments of the population. Suffice to say they haven't entered the lexicon of fast food menu items.

  That being said, if Rip Van Winkle were to awaken today, perhaps we would best welcome him with a couple of his and my favorite foods, that in his time, were considered common. Oh! And by the way, that's me impersonating Rip Van Winkle. You could say it is a bit of typecasting.

  Not sure who this Rip Van Winkle character is? "Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It may be one of the best known American fairy tales.