- Discuss Readings
- WordPress Menus
- Intro to HTML/CSS in WordPress
- Individual meetings to look at site maps, work on building site structure
- Assignment: Web Type Workshop – Saturday Oct 1st, 12-4
- Please arrive with a fresh wordpress install, using the Clean Home theme
- Web Typography
- HTML/CSS for WordPress
- Assignment: Make design comps and build your WordPress menu structure
- Reading: Basics of Web Design
Menus
Try these things:
- Create a custom menu instead of default
- Add elements
- Change label
- Change order
- Create sub-pages
- Custom Links
HTML
- Tag structure
- <tag>text that’s tagged</tag>
- Essential tags
- BOLD: <strong>text</strong>
- ITALIC: <em>text</em>
- HEADERS:<h1>text</h1>, <h2>text</h2>, etc.
- Colors in HTML: #RRGGBB, e.g. #ff0000 = red, #00ff00 = blue, #555555 = grey
- Colors range from 00 to FF
- color: #555555
- Changing the style of body text
- <body> tag
- color: #555555
- font-size: 20px;
- font-family: Georgia, serif;
- Changing the style of a Header (tags:h2, h3)