SPRING 2006

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Week 7/May 15

Creating Tables & Frames

We'll be adding a couple of new pages to our Sunshine Garden web site this week, and stretching out our web design muscles with two of the real heavyweight features of FrontPage: tables and frames.

Tables are very handy for organizing information like financial statements, calendars, and schedules (see our own Schedule for example); in other words, anything that you want to arrange in rows and columns. But tables are even more important in web design; they can be used to divide up the page and position elements exactly where you want them. By creating and formatting rows and columns, you can create multiple columns for text, headers, footers, sidebars, and windows for graphics. Most well designed web pages are based on tables (check out the HTML of your favorite site!).

Frames, another valuable resource for web page design, are simply windows in a page into which you can place other web pages. A frames page can have many windows, or frames, each targeting a different web page. They can be any size or shape, and can change independent of each other, but to the user it all looks like a single page. This creates lot's of cool possibilities for displaying your information, as you can see in Tutorial 5.2.

After you've finished making all the revisions in Tutorial 5, save your pages and publish to your website (links to all our student sites can be found on the Conference page).

Frames & Angelfire

Those of you using Angelfire to host your web pages will discover another interesting wrinkle when you publish your frames page. That annoying banner ad now appears, not only at the top of the page, but at the top of each frame, because (remember) each frame points to a separate web page. Don't worry about it (this is the price we pay for "free" web hosting).

Tutorial 5 Quiz now posted

Check out your Blackboard Assignments page for this week's quiz. Please note that the weekly quiz only stays up for one week (you need to complete before next Monday!).

Keep those questions coming!

I'll be patrolling the Blackboard Discussion Board this week for questions, comments, problems, etc. Please let me know if you need help!

See you on the Web!

week 7 assignments:

Reading & Hands-On Exercises:
Tutorial 5 (pp. 265-324)

Publish to Web:
Sunshine Garden (through Session 5.2 and Review Assignments)

Weekly Quiz:
Go to Blackboard Assignments and take the Tutorial 5 Quiz

Discussion Board:
Go to Blackboard Discussion Board to find out what we're talking about this week in class

Deadline:
Monday, May 22

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