Saturday, August 24, 2013

Lesson 5

This blogsite is specially prepared for students of NAFA taking module FS3004 E-commerce for Fashion Business.

1. Website layout:

Refer to Understanding the Z-layout in Web design &
Good page layout design elements
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mount/Indep/CHassan/element.htm)

Examples of poor design web:
http://vacaway.com/products_display/
http://www.fabricland.co.uk/
http://art.yale.edu/

Examples of good layout design web:
 
Adobe Kuler is an internet application from Adobe Systems that lets individuals try out, create and save various colour schemes, each of which consists of a set of five colours.
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler.html
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud.edu.html

2. The beauty of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS):

This website exhibits the important of CSS. Content no change, while the visual design can be change frequently to keep visitor's revisit the site http://csszengarden.com/
 
 

3. The benefits of applying CSS in a website:

Cascading style sheets control the look and feel of a web page. The language and syntax is complex and powerful.

Benefits:
  • Ease of maintaining large web sites
  • Sophisticated layout & design features
  • No plugins required
  • Minimise download times

This is a CSS syntax.
CSS ID & Class
The id selector is used to specify a style for a single, unique element.
The class selector is used to specify a style for a group of elements. Unlike the id selector, the class selector is most often used on several elements.

Refer to this site for hands-on practice. http://w3schools.com/css/css_id_class.asp

The way to insert CSS:-
Internal stylesheet
<head>
< style>
hr {color:sienna;}
p {margin-left:20px;}
body {background-image:url("images/back40.gif");}
< /style>
< /head>

External stylesheet
<head>
< link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">
< /head>

How to create a external stylesheet?
Videos:
 
 

4. CSS styling:

 

1 comment:

  1. Jean, this is Erica from FD5A2. I have a problem with the results of inserting the hyperlink in the TOP frame. When I insert the hyper link, it only open it on the TOP frame (and its cut) instead of the middle frame. What should I do? Will you be in school this week?

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