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Interaction Design Courses, Workshops, and Resources

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  • 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

Menu documentation

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)

 

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