thanks Keith, your enthusiasm is contagious - I'm a bit rusty and need a push to further develop my css skills<br><br>Laurie, I like your site<br><a href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au/~sav/web_101/02.html">http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au/~sav/web_101/02.html
</a><br>looks great, nice lessons<br><br>> alternate style sheet via View menu<br>that looks great, I'll be using that!!<br>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
<br><br>> web developer firefox extension<br>thanks for the reminder about this, I've tried before, will try again in a sec<br><br>I like the back to basics raw XHTML and CSS approach using notepad<br><br>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.
<br><br>The lesson sequence is:<br>1) find the lyrics of a song or poem you like and some matching pics<br>2) follow the worksheets to develop 4 different web page versions of this same song<br>a) just HTML<br>b) simple style for headings, background colour, links
<br>c) heading in a box<br>d) watermark background image<br>e) simple menu<br><br>I can put the worksheets and exemplar on my website if anyone is interested just yell out<br><br>I've recently discovered notepad2 <br><a href="http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html">
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html</a><br>which has syntax highlighting for HTML <br><br>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
<a href="http://www.nvu.com/">http://www.nvu.com/</a> and ask them which way they want to go<br><br>-- <br>Bill Kerr<br><a href="http://billkerr.blogspot.com/">http://billkerr.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm">
http://users.tpg.com.au/billkerr/index.htm</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Laurie Savage</b> <<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Keith,<br><br>Thanks for the feedback - this site has been an inspiration! But if you<br>really want to see what you can do with CSS and a bit of design sense -
<br>visit<br><br> <a href="http://www.csszengarden.com">http://www.csszengarden.com</a><br><br>and look at some of the contributions. I hope you're using Firefox,<br>because 1) it is better with CSS positioning and background images than IE;
<br>2) unlike IE it displays PNG files properly; 3) it has an extension called<br>"Web developer" that shows the blocks with their ids and classes and<br>will load the css file so you can examine the code (you need to install
<br>it via the Extensions update tool); and, 4) it can use alternative style<br>sheets via the View menu (You'll notice my web_101 pages can be viewed<br>with alternate styles).<br><br>Best wishes,<br><br>Laurie<br><br>On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:36:13PM +1100 or thereabouts, Keith Richardson wrote:
<br>> Laurie - in one word: Beautiful, in two: Bloody Awesome!<br>> You have set me on a new path - thank you. I intend implementing these<br>> incredible Myer effects.<br>> Ciao, Keith<br>><br>><br>>
<br>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:41:03 +1100, "Laurie Savage"<br>> <<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>> said:<br>> > Keith, I ransacked my archives and found the link to eric Meyer's demo.
<br>> ><br>> > <a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html">http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspiral/demo.html</a><br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > Laurie Savage<br>
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