Art 101, Spring 2015: Homework 08

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

Assignments, posted Monday, 5/18, due at 8 am on Monday, May 25.

A. From M1, read the text, Chs. 69-78, Navigation bars.

C. From M2, read the text, Chs. 69-81, Objects.

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-08"
  • 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-08.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-08.html, hw-08.css, hw-08.js)
    and the documentation file for your solution to part D of this assignment ("hw-08-about.html").
    Include an image on the page, relevant to part D.
    NEW: Style this as a navigation bar as in M1, chs. 69-75.
  • B4. Include a description of part D in a separate file, ("hw-08-about.html").
    • The description should include the overall plan, inputs, outputs, variables, functions, etc.
    Include an organizational chart for your page hw-08.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-08 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-08/index.html".
    • Follow closely M1, chs. 64-68.

    D. Create a triple (hw-08.css, hw-08.html, and hw-08.js) to solve the problem that you propose in B4.

    This is the fourth 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-08.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, in the body.
    • The title of the project in the header section.
    • A short video of your own included in the graphics section (see example 8-02).
    • The overlay section with a canvas on top of the video.
    • The footer section with the date and time last modified (see example 4-05).
  • D2. The CSS page (hw-08.css) should control the position of the canvas element.
  • D3. The JS page (hw-08.js) should include these compulsory elements:
    • A window.onload method window.addEventListener('load', globalApp); ]
    • A globalApp function.
    • The function used for animation on the canvas.
    • An event should trigger the animation.
    • NEW: An object with at least one property and at least one method defined and used in your code.
  • D4. Post your homework D (five files) in the folder for this week.

    • Revised 17 May 2015 by Ralph