Hello all! Let's get started with a game plan of the activities for this week.

Now whether you read the assigned textbook reading or start with the online lecture pages is up to you. However, you should read both before starting any homework exercises.

The on-line lecture this week is devoted to the display (rendering) of text for web pages. There is a lot of reading, but these are critical concepts and considerations for all web developers... are your pages being displayed and viewed as you are assuming?

It is all well and good to create a site... but are your viewers seeing the same thing you do? The answer(s) may well be dependent on how well you implement text and font properties, which are discussed this week!

• We start with a page about semantics. This is a term used to describe "naming" our CSS classes and IDs in a meaningful and significant way. This is a different approach to how we might have "coded" in the past.
• We then review typography basics which covers the differences between typefaces and fonts, and other text/font terminology.
• Next is an exploration of font-sizing issues. Do we specify absolute sizes or relative sizes? This is a _HUGE_ issue at this point in time, considering how different browsers render our text!
• How do we make our text LOOK the way we want? This is covered in font styles and variants and in text properties.
• And we wrap up the lecture with some browser tools which you may find useful in your CSS work and exploration.

The Homework Assignment(s) this Week

There are 2 separate tasks assigned this week:

• The first task is to create a document which asks you to create HW 4A - using various text/property options.
   
  In this assignment you will get a lot of experience using and experimenting with the different text and font properties. This will be of use for all other web documents you create in the future!
• The second task (HW 4B) asks you to add some text/font styling to your home page. If you have read the reading assignment and completed the homework above, this should take a minimal amount of time.

Time to get started!

Please let me know in the forum if you have any questions or issues.