The Midterm Exam is NEXT Week

WOW, time really does fly by quickly, and we are approaching the 2nd half of the quarter. We have covered a lot of CSS information, but there is more to come!

Next week (week 7) there will be reading material but no assignments. You will be expected to read the materials, but the focus of week 7 will be taking the on-line midterm exam in ETUDES.

The on-line exam will be multiple choice questions covering the reading materials and assignments for weeks 1 - 6.

The exam will be available from Wednesday February 21 through Sunday the 25th... in ETUDES

If you have issues with this time frame, you need to contact me immediately so that we can deal with your situation. Remember this time frame... write a post-it note on your monitor to remind you. If you have a problem with these dates/times, and you do not contact me prior to the exam... sorry about that!

The on-line multiple choice exam will be timed. You will have 3 hours to complete it, and it will be open book, open notes, and you can use your browser if you wish.

You should review the materials and reading for weeks 1 - 6.

I have a page of 3rd party on-line quizzes relating to CSS. While these quizzes may not cover the same material as this class, they will help you check your CSS knowledge and determine whether there are areas which you might need to review.

Grading

I am almost caught up in the grading for this class and expect to have homework 4 graded by Thursday February 15.

And I will finish grading homework 5 prior to the midterm exam so that you have all of my feedback.

The Materials this Week - Floating and Positioning

The lecture document sections this week are:

• We start with the Float Property which describes how to make an element float to the left or the right in relation to other content. This is commonly used with images, but in CSS ANY element can be floated.
   
  Floating is not exactly intuitive, and there is a lot to understanding the concept, but it is an invaluable tool when using CSS for layout purposes.
• The Positioning Overview explores properties and issues related to positioning elements on a page... we are starting to get into the power of page layout here!
• Z-Index explores properties and issues related to positioning elements on a page which have a stacking order... where are elements positioned, and which element is on top or underneath another element.
• The Browser Tools section documents tools which aide in the debugging of positioned elements - Firebug and The Web Developer Toolbar... very useful tools!
• As mentioned above, the midterm exam is next week. Here are a few 3rd party On-line CSS Quizzes which will help you prepare for the midterm and test your CSS knowledge.

The Homework 6 Assignment

The Homework 6 Assignment this week asks you to create 3 separate documents related to the FLOAT property. You will float a series of images with different alignments as well as create a NON-table of images for a gallery effect.

I will see you on-line, and please participate in the forum if you have any questions.