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Using Multiple Style Sheets

Article Site
This article discusses the use of multiple style sheets rather than one large one. The main advantages really only matter if you have an extremely large CSS file with thousands of lines.
The author discusses breaking your CSS file into type, layout, and color files to organize them a little better and make it easier to find your way around the document easier. He recommends going even further and making CSS files for each kind of media, whether it be print, screen, or mobile.
The article then goes on to discuss how to make your CSS files invisible to older browsers such as IE5 & 6 and Macs by using tricks that only certain browsers recognize and others ignore.
Overall this is a very informative article and I would recommend it highly if you are dealing with large CSS files that get a little tough to navigate through.

Thoughts On Recent Lessons

The past few lessons have been so packed full of information that it has been hard to register it all. I am not saying that is a bad thing though, I like it that way actually. I have learned a couple new tips and tricks about XHTML and CSS that I didn't know before. The thing that most interested me was the Z-axis orientation. I am not sure why I thought that was so cool but I will be the first to tell you that I would have saved a lot of time in previous classes assignments had I know that.
I was hoping to get more feedback about my site than I did, so anyone that gets bored please look at my mock-up from the lesson a couple weeks ago and let me know what you think.

Article Analysis I

The article that I decided to analyze was CSS Backgrounds and Borders, mostly because CSS is easily my favorite part about web design. The url is:
W3C CSS Backgrounds and Borders Article

The article is VERY informative, there's a lot to learn from it. It basically describes all of the new features, keywords, and properties of the CSS3 version of backgrounds and borders. This article tells you everything from how to make a picture your background, to positioning it, sizing it, giving it a color background, and deciding if and how you want to repeat the image. Detailed examples are shown for each chunk of information, which is split up pretty well.

The article is very well written, and I would imagine it should be since it is W3C's site. Any web designer could take a look at this article and find something that may be of use to them. Everyone could learn a thing or two more about CSS right?

Lesson 6 Progress

We're pretty far into the semester now, by now in most classes that I have taken before we would have started on coding a while ago. It's kinda nice to focus on the design elements instead, that is what I needed the most help with anyways. I have been using the color design principles quite a bit since we talked about them. It's interesting when visiting other sites now because I break them down and analyze them, it's almost a curse!!

Quiz Scores

Here are my scores for the quizzes:
64

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62

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Class Progress

When I came into this class I thought that it would just be a repeat of what I took last semester in Web Languages I, needless to say, I was wrong. I know coding pretty well now and I can do almost anything with a site if someone told me exactly what they wanted to do with it. But that it kinda what I want to get away from. For the most part, people don't really know what they want. They may think that they do, but it may not be practical or make much sense. I want to be independent in the design process and be able to know what works and what doesn't as far as design goes. The past two or three lessons have been extremely helpful in that they begin laying out the foundation of a site. Most of the time I just design it as I am coding, I have a rough image in my head that I try to replicate through the code.Now, through use of wire frames and site maps I can make the coding process easier and focus on one thing at a time.