[Year 12 IPM] CSS Critique Invited - to Laurie from Keith

[Janette Bennie]

Hi Bill,

I'd love to see the worksheets & exemplar

Thanks, Janette


>From: Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
>Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
>To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
>Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
>Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] CSS Critique Invited - to Laurie from Keith
>Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:09:17 +1100
>
>thanks Keith, your enthusiasm is contagious - I'm a bit rusty and need a
>push to further develop my css skills
>
>Laurie, I like your site
>http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au/~sav/web_101/02.html
>looks great, nice lessons
>
> > alternate style sheet via View menu
>that looks great, I'll be using that!!
>suggest you put clear instructions on the page about doing that, some might
>miss it, I would have unless you had explicitly pointed it out
>
> > web developer firefox extension
>thanks for the reminder about this, I've tried before, will try again in a
>sec
>
>I like the back to basics raw XHTML and CSS approach using notepad
>
>I wrote some lessons using notepad to develop web pages for year 9s at my
>school. We have 3 or 4 different teachers each year teaching from notes and
>it surprised me that they have for the last 2 or 3 years all declared
>themselves to be very happy doing it with notepad. I had thought that they
>would have applied pressure for a visual editor.
>
>The lesson sequence is:
>1) find the lyrics of a song or poem you like and some matching pics
>2) follow the worksheets to develop 4 different web page versions of this
>same song
>a) just HTML
>b) simple style for headings, background colour, links
>c) heading in a box
>d) watermark background image
>e) simple menu
>
>I can put the worksheets and exemplar on my website if anyone is interested
>just yell out
>
>I've recently discovered notepad2
>http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
>which has syntax highlighting for HTML
>
>So I thought in 2006 I'd ask the year 9 teachers to have a look at both
>notepad2 and NVU, which is an open source visual editor
>http://www.nvu.com/and ask them which way they want to go
>
>--
>Bill Kerr
>http://billkerr.blogspot.com/
>http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm
>
>On 12/27/05, Laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > Keith,
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback - this site has been an inspiration! But if you
> > really want to see what you can do with CSS and a bit of design sense -
> > visit
> >
> > http://www.csszengarden.com
> >
> > and look at some of the contributions. I hope you're using Firefox,
> > because 1) it is better with CSS positioning and background images than
> > IE;
> > 2) unlike IE it displays PNG files properly; 3) it has an extension 
>called
> > "Web developer" that shows the blocks with their ids and classes and
> > will load the css file so you can examine the code (you need to install
> > it via the Extensions update tool); and, 4) it can use alternative style
> > sheets via the View menu (You'll notice my web_101 pages can be viewed
> > with alternate styles).
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Laurie
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:36:13PM +1100 or thereabouts, Keith 
>Richardson
> > wrote:
> > > Laurie - in one word: Beautiful, in two: Bloody Awesome!
> > > You have set me on a new path - thank you. I intend implementing these
> > > incredible Myer effects.
> > > Ciao, Keith
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:41:03 +1100, "Laurie Savage"
> > > <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> said:
> > > > Keith, I ransacked my archives and found the link to eric Meyer's
> > demo.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Laurie Savage
> > > > =============================================
> > > > Physics/IT Teacher, Pascoe Vale Girls College
> > > > Pascoe Vale, Victoria. +613 9306 2544
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> > Laurie Savage
> > =============================================
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