Files for class Sept. 17-18

Boxes. Navigation.

Signing up for web hosting

In a few weeks, we'll transition from HTML/CSS to creating our Wordpress sites in J105. So that means it's time to purchase our domain names and hosting.

We will purchase this in class Sept. 19 & 20, but feel free to buy yours ahead of time (especially if you want one of your parents to put it on their credit card).

To sign up, go to the MDD hosting web site. Under "hosting" in the top navigation, click on "shared hosting." The Basic plan will suffice for our websites.

When you are ready to pay, use the code WHT50 to get your hosting for half price. Remember you'll be buying hosting and a domain name. The domain name should cost $15/year, and hosting will be $38 for the first year (using the couponcode above).

CSS files for class Sept. 10-11

CSS files.

Files for class 9/6

Download these files.

Welcome to Web Design for fall 2012

Welcome to a new semester of J105: Web Page Design at Drake University.

In the first few weeks of class, you will learn to create web pages using HTML and CSS. After that, we will turn our attention to creating websites using the Wordpress content management system. You'll purchase a domain, create a site, create content for that site and modify the design of the site using your HTML and CSS skills.

Along the way, we'll learn about the skills required to be an online editor at a media site (search engine optimization, analytics, social media, etc.)

This blog will be a place to share information for the class. I will post assignments, important information and questions here.

Basic class info can be found using the links above.

Take a minute to join our class Facebook group. We will use that for class discussions throughout the semester.