CE-Continuing Ed – Page 2 – Teaching Website Design

Interesting article about using other people’s Blog content

From Constant Contact’s Blog… Miranda Paquet | Aug 23, 2014 Are You Sharing Other People’s Content? Here’s How to Do it Right Let’s face it — continuously coming up with new and fresh content to keep your email readers, followers, and fans engaged isn’t easy. It may be part of the reason why you skipped…

About favicons

The problem with the demo in class, was that WordPress translated the code into curly left-right quotes, putting “bad code” into your headers. See the example below and retype the text carefully, or to to the link below… in W3 schools for tryout: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_link_sizes To design: Start of designing with a square of any size. Reduce…

Class review Feb 10-12

Continue with completing your page… New material to add: page anchors in Dreamweaver create unique CSS styles that can be applied to any tag individually called Classes…info here and here Google fonts… Quick Use Guide YouTube iFrame (see screenshot below or figure 1) copy and paste iframe into body of webpage Figure 1: Example of…

WordPress — Child Themes, backups and other things

Learning php by doing? The latest version of creating a WordPress Child Theme requires creating a functions.php file. What is all this enqueue stuff? Read here: enqueue My favorite back-up Plug-in is Updraft… save your database and all files anywhere you want… check out or upgrade to Updraft Plus..

Bored of the limitations of “web-safe” fonts? Try Google fonts!

It’s easy! No fancy programming involved. To see the font choices, click here: http://www.google.com/fonts To get started on a simple, two-step process to add a Google-font to your style-sheet, click here: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started To add multiple styles of a font family member, use CSS. Include the link for as many weights and styles as you want:…

FTP Software

“shareware” Fetch “freeware” Filezilla

Great news from Adobe

I realize that this is probably old news, but one of my students (thanks, Kailey) informed me that one can download older versions of Adobe’s Creative Suite from the Cloud. See: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/download-previous-versions-creative-applications.html

Intro links.

Welcome to the 2014 Web Design Class.. We will be using WordPress and Angel as well as the following links for exercises: Code Academy W3 Schools Visit or subscribe to this blog for the latest updates! Dina Pearlman