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Monday, June 27, 2011

Chapter 3 Hands-On Exercises (1-9)



In this unit, I learned more about cascading stylesheets, IDs, classes, and external stylesheets and had the opportunity to practice using them. So, here you go...


This sentence is using an inline style


Testing the new embedded body settings (Green text on a white background)(NOTE: the background color here is changed due to settings on this site)


Testing the .new class settings (Bold and italic, Arial/Helvetica/sans-serif font family, no underlined links, white background, black text): Yahoo.com


Week 2 Exercises Involving External Stylesheets

My Favorite Movie Using External Stylesheet #1(3.7)

My Favorite Movie Using External Stylesheet #2(3.7)

CSS Advantages Using External Stylesheet

CSS Advantages Using Modified External Stylesheet and Using Inline Code to Overwrite Stylesheet Elements

CSS Disadvantages Using External Stylesheet

CSS Disadvantages Using Modified External Stylesheet

3.9 Required me to go to CSS Validator to validate one of my external stylesheet files. The site was surprisingly easy to use. I uploaded the file and clicked the CHECK button and it popped up right away with two error messages. I had listed the font name and the color for my <h1> definition incorectly. Not only did it recognize my crass mistakes, it even told me how to fix them. I quickly made the changes and uploaded the file again and it passed. Easy peasy. I'd recommend this tool to anyone learning about CSS and XHTML. It definitely made things a lot easier for me. It's a very useful tool if you're not completely sure what you're doing(ie. - if you're like me =D ).

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