GDES-220 fall 2023 / David Ramos, American University Design
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The box model / Classes and IDs
September 11
Finish Recipe / Start Typography
In class
- The box model
- Classes and IDs
- DIVs and sectioning content
Demo files: Layout/typography demo (ZIP)
Projects
- Complete Recipe for Thursday
- On Thursday, start work on Typography. (We’ll always have a project underway, and you should always be making steady progress on it.)
Reading
Complete this reading for Thursday. This week’s reading teaches you how to control space within and around elements on the page.
- Duckett ch. 13 (boxes), 14 (lists, tables, and forms)
- Citations and copyright policy
- See HTML Tidy, like a spellchecker for HTML
Navigating files and folders
Are you having trouble working with files and folders? Finding that you make changes to a file but can’t get those changes to show up in the browser? Watch a file management tutorial on LinkedIn Learning, “Understanding files, folders, and directories” for Mac or “Navigating folders and their contents” for Windows.
You can sign in to LinkedIn Learning using your AU credentials.