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CS 347: Lecture 3 – Adding Style

September 1, 2020 by Chris Johnson. Filed under fall-2020, lectures, webdev.

Dear students:

It’s time to move start making our information structures aesthetically pleasing. In this lecture, we explore Cascading Stylesheets (CSS). We walk through a gallery of common visual properties and explore the CSS properties that allow us to configure them.

Here’s your TODO list:

• Watch History of CSS, in which we see how CSS came to be.
• Watch Color and Selectors, in which we learn about two color properties and apply them to elements using selectors.
• Watch Fonts, in which we modify the appearance of text.
• Watch Text Decoration, in which we tweak text a bit more and introduce shorthand rules.
• Watch Size, in which we alter the shape of elements.
• Watch Borders, in which decorate elements with lines and examine directional syntax.
• Watch Sources, in which compare the several ways of declaring styles.
• Watch Haiku, in which we take a poetic aside.
• Read chapter 5 of Client-side Web Development.
• Post any questions and comments you have regarding the videos and readings on the course Slack.
• Set up your weekly blog and write your first entry before Friday, September 11. (Your instructor will wake up at an insane hour each Friday morning for the rest of the semester and read through all your posts. Late entries will not be accepted.) Post any issues you encounter on Slack—even if you fix them yourself.

See you next time.

Sincerely,