Art 101, Spring 2015: Homework 07

NOTE:
M1 = Myers, Smarter Way HTML & CSS
M2 = Myers, Smarter Way JavaScript

Assignments, posted Monday, 5/11, due at 8 am on Monday, May 18.

A. From M1, read the text, Chs. 60-68, Layout.

C. From M2, read the text, Chs. 58-68, The DOM.

B. Update the website for your homework for this course.

  • B1. Create a folder in your website for your homework for this week, named "week-07"
  • B2. A list of links on your homepage should point to your assignments, including the new one.
  • B3. Create an index page, "index.html" for the new folder.
    • Edit this index page, and your style sheet for this week, "hw-07.css",
    choosing fonts, colors, borders, margins, etc, as you please.
    Include an image on the page, relevant to the project.
    Include links to the HTML, CSS, JS, (hw-07.html, hw-07.css, hw-07.js)
    and the documentation file for your solution to part D of this assignment ("hw-07-about.html").
    Include an image on the page, relevant to part D.
  • B4. Include a description of part D in a separate file, ("hw-07-about.html").
    • The description should include the overall plan, inputs, outputs, variables, functions, etc.
    NEW: Include an organizational chart for your page hw-07.html, like M1, p. 188.
    Optional but suggested: include a flowchart of your software.
    Include a list of your team members with their homepage URLs.
    The week-07 folders of each team member should be in sync.
    Include brief indications of the contributions of each team member.
  • B5. Include a "Modern Header"in your file "week-07/index.html".
    • Follow closely M1, chs. 64-68.

    D. Create a triple (hw-07.css, hw-07.html, and hw-07.js) to solve the problem that you propose in B4.

    This is the third DIY assignment. You and your team are to design a project, to be executed as a triple of files as usual,
    plus the new page of description. and posted to the websites of all members of the team, satisfying the following constraints.

  • D1. The HTML page (hw-07.html) should include these compulsory elements:
    • The link to the JS code should be in the head section (see example 4-06).
    • The elements: header, section#graphics, section#overlay, and footer.
    • The header section should include the title of the project.
    • The overlay section should show a canvas.
    • The footer section should include the date and time last modified (see example 4-05).
  • D2. The CSS page (hw-07.css) should control the position of the canvas element.
  • D3. The JS page (hw-07.js) should include these compulsory elements:
    • A window.onload method
      [ NEW on 5/14/15: or better, use the method, window.addEventListener('load', globalApp); ]
    • A globalApp function.
    • The functions used for imaging on the canvas.
    • There should be at least two animations, showing different types of animation (eg, drawings, text, images, or color).
    • Events (mouse clicks or actions) should trigger the animations.
    • NEW: Include code to add a two elements to your hw-07.html, one in the header and another in the footer. See M2, ch. 68.
  • D4. Post your homework D (five files) in the folder for this week.

    • Revised 14 May 2015 by Ralph