LIS 390W1A - Lab 12: More CSS

For lab 12, I'd like you all to start on your personal website assignment.

Please write at least one page of HTML, complete with validation links, that validates as CSS and HTML, and then write an external stylesheet to style the page. Play with the styles, and send me a page that both has interesting content, and which you think looks really good. This does not have to be the final draft of the page that you turn in. Feel free to change it later, when you are working on the full assignment. But use this as an opportunity to create something you like, and something which (a) demonstrates your expertise in styling, and (b) is a page where you try out new things. Please try to make it using relative positioning so that it flows to fit the size of the browser being used. If you want to change this later, that's fine, but use this assignment as a means to build your relative positioning skills.

Note, the personal website does not have to be about yourself. It can be a fan site, a tutorial, or something else that you want to make. Be creative!

To turn in your assignment, please post it to the Personal Webpage Assignment Forum, and in your forum post, give a 250-1000 word summary of what you did, why you made the CSS decisions which you did, and what new CSS commands you utilized while completing this assignment.

http://courses.lis.illinois.edu/mod/forum/view.php?id=14726

This way your fellow students can see what you've done, and get some ideas for their own pages. Please feel free to comment on other people's pages, ask them how they did something, etc. And please ask me for help.

If you want an extension for this assignment, please ask, and I will give you until Friday at midnight to complete it. I realize that asking you to complete this by Wednesday morning might be a little bit much to ask.

Out of 25 points total.

• HTML validation (link + successful validation): 5 points
• CSS validation (link + successful validation): 5 points
• CSS styling that creates an interesting-looking page: 5 points
• Using CSS styles that you did not try before: 5 points
• Interesting and well written content: 5 points