Comprehensive Web Design
Fall 2002 - Spring 2003
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Class 19 Handout

Dreamweaver Lesson 7. What is CSS. Using cascading style sheets to design websites with standardized layouts. Making classes. Converting style sheets to HTML for older browsers.

1. Review of homework assignment -
We will take a quick look at your animated gifs, transparent gifs, seamless background tile/image.

2. Adding Sounds -
1) Linking to Sounds.
2) Embedding Sounds.
3) Background Sounds.
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/sounds/_BGSOUND_SRC.html

3. Cascading Style Sheets -
1) Redefining HTML with style sheets.
2) Defining a Custom Class.
3) Using Selectors to Group Tags.
4) Affecting Links with Selectors.
5. Linking to a Style Sheet.
6) Converting from CSS to HTML.

4. HTML Review -
1) The Code View.
2) Editing in the Code View.
3) Using the Quick Tag Editor.
4) Cleaning up HTML.
5) Cleaning up Word HTML.


HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
1) Read Chapter 11 of the Dreamweaver book.
2) Apply an external cascading style sheet to a page or pages of your web project.
3) Do any additional tweaks advised during the critiques.
4) Add a background sound or a downloadable mp3 or wav file to your project.