Notes 3-25-10

look up GIF vs JPEG

*dont have webpages exceed 60k*

htmledit.squarefree.com

use notepad, text edit

hypertext mark-up language

CSS cascading style sheets

First web page (index.html) (all lowercase, no spaces)

Web Workflows Notes

Chapter 1-

• Initializing the comp
• setting preferences
• working with layers
• making selections
• adding gradients (adding a header and a footer)
• inserting images/ opacity
• placing an image & quick mask (extracting an image with a wand tool)
• resizing image (show transforming option)

Chapter 2

• aligning with guides (creating a new guide view> new guide> enter position) inserting icons and aligning them with guides and the distribute option in the option bar, inserting a gradient under the heading and behind the buttons on the page, adding bars of color for different sections of the page
• working with text
• applying effects
• aligning text with smart guide
• simple rules for text: Use common fonts, size in pixels, set paragraph margins, avoid hyphenation.
• Placing text in the header folder and naming it "h1 and h2" (page title and subheading)
• Placing body text in the content folder(leading=height)
• Inserting decorative text/ title graphic (page 47)