Internal presentation given by Nick DeNardis at Wayne State University to the Marketing and Communications creative group for internal employee development.
12. cascading style sheets
• Separation of structure and presentation
• Positioning on screen
• Backgrounds and images
• Fonts and readability
adding style
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13. css media
• all - applied to all
• handheld - mobile phone
• print - when transfered to printer
• screen - for color computer screens
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22. images
• Keep file size down
• User background colors where possible
• Combine images where possible
• Always use alternate tags to describe
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23. designing from the html out
• Start from the HTML
• Structure the content and DOM
• Position elements for the screen
• Add style and images
• Format for Print and Mobile
• Become comfortable with the constraints
of the web
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24. resources
• Web Design from Scratch
http://webdesignfromscratch.com/
• Semantic (X)HTML
http://microformats.org/wiki/semantic
• CSS Properties
http://htmldog.com/reference/cssproperties/
• More to come
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