Where are you with your assignment?

Please outline how far you are with your assignment so far.

For example you might answer the following questions:

• Who are your identified "audiences"?


• What are the characteristics of these that make "their site" different?


• What technologies do you intend using in your assignment and why?

These are only examples and you can say what you like as long as you give an update.

P. S. You might also refer back to previous messages on the blog.

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  Using the XSLT Workbook Hi everybody

I am interested in what you think of using XSLT on web pages.

Please comment on this blog to tell me:

• How you got on with the workbook
• How you see XSLT working with your assignment (or not!)

best wishes

Rowland  ¶ 12:01 PM 0 comments

  Session 08 - feedback Please comment on this post to say what you have learned as a consequence of doing the three activities this session.

Activity 1: how you might apply CSS to XML to format your material as a viable XHTML web page.

Activity 2: investigate how simple links can be coded in XML

Activity 3: apply different style sheets to the same XML data so that the XHTML pages produced have significantly different appearances.  ¶ 1:37 PM 1 comments

  Sorting out the problems in session 07 activity 2 Hi everybody

If you remember we had a problem with the example of attaching a CSS style sheet to an XML page. To see this now working go to the activity 2 page, click on activity resources and then choose using CSS with XML.

I don't know why it would not work on the server but in the end I changed all the file names and then it worked OK. Perhaps some of the files on the server are cached so I was looking at old ones but I really have no idea. Sometimes these things happen and you have to work round them.

Rowland
  ¶ 10:06 AM 2 comments

  Session 07: Information about XML Please add a comment to this post if you have:

• some information to discuss about using the XML workbook
• found some useful information about XML on the web [ in this case please give the URL]
• anything else to say about XML

You should also give me some information about how far you have got with the XML workbook by the end of the weekend ending Sunday 20th November.

Rowland  ¶ 2:24 PM 5 comments

  Session 07: Making CSS lists Here are the details of the first activity in Session 7:

Go to Lisatamatics web site;

Take a look at the lists that are shown there and choose one that interests you;

Make that list work on your own web page by putting the CSS in the header
[Take a look at the activity resources for an example of this];

Modify the CSS and while doing so annotate it with comments to explain how it works
[Here you might have to modify the CSS to get the same result as on the web site or if it works straight away make some modifications of your own and explain them];

Post your page into your WebCT presentation area and modify your home page to link to it.

Comment on this post to say what you have done and how you have done attaching a URL to your web page;

best of luck

Rowland  ¶ 2:12 PM 3 comments

  Ideas for your assignment Hi everybody

Please comment on this post by giving:

• a description of the three "audiences" you are going to have for your web site;
• the characteristics of these audiences that will affect the design of your site;
• an outline of the three different designs that you will need and explain why they must be designed that way;

thanks

Rowland  ¶ 12:26 PM 7 comments

  Thanks for the feedback Hi everybody

I have taken a look at the feedback and it seems that in general we need a consolidation week to give you more practice at some of the more recent ideas.

To help with this I have moved all of the sessions back one place and fitted in a session to do this. This has not produced a problem because there was a "spare" session built into the scheme later on. We can use the blog posts from session 05 to report on what we have done.

Hopefully we will be able to clear up the difficulties you may have so far and those people who have done the activities already can have a go at activity 2.

It would be helpful if all of us did activity 3, either in session 06 or before session 07.

best of luck

Rowland  ¶ 2:47 PM 0 comments