N e a r l y Perfect's Classroom

OP SNATCHER!!!!
For Grades and Assignments.
A quick key to my acronyms: NHI or N/A means not handed in or not applicable, I use them interchangeably depending on whether or not my H key is in the mood to work on the internet. Neither of them are bad, it just means they aren't due yet. NYA means that I've thought of an assignment I want to give you but have Not Yet Assigned it.

Assignments and Grades
Assignment 1: Starting Out: Complete
Assignment 2: Giant Blue Blob Table NavBar Webpage: A+
Assignment 3: Your Own Table NavBar Webpage: NYA







All about you...
Name: N e a r l y Perfect
Nicknames: Near, Nearly, NP, Perfect
Gender: Female
Age: 12-25
Pets? Well i had a beautiful gray and white tomcat . . . but he ran away 2 months ago and never came back
Favorite Color: Aqua/Light Blue
Favorite Sport[s]: horse back riding (lol)


Contract Info (inc. AIM, e-mail, MSN, DA, SIM games, ect. Anything you want to tell me):
Emails:
NearlyPerfect.HL@gmail.com
NearlyPerfect.HP@gmail.com

SIM games:
HL ID #4528966
HP ID #727



All about the graphics...
How long have you been making graphics? around a year and a half
What graphics program do you use (if any)? Photoshop CS4 and GIMP 2.6.6

HTML...
How long have you been coding? around a year
What level are you at? i believe around 5ish
What is your favorite set of code by you? [this]. the picture is horrible but that was the first triple expandie i ever did XD
What is your favorite set of code by anyone? [this] by hazelle

The talent...
And now, what would you like to learn first? How to code a sophisticated website XD
What do you believe you know already? how to code a single, double, triple and quadruple expandie and the same with scrolls. I could probably do more on each but i havent tried. how to code a simple website . . . thats all that comes to mind currently

Learning...
At what pace do you usually learn? nowhere . . . i taught myself
Do you learn better from tutorials or from specific instructing (if you have a preference)? specific instucting
Do you know some about coding or are you just overall confused? i know quite a bit



Random...
Other:

This post has been edited by TimeStop on Jul 8 2009, 04:33 AM

Alright, I am going to need you to explain to me more what you mean about coding websites. What I think you're saying is that you'd like to move beyond coding for sim games and start doing more professional coding? And also that you essentially know the ins and outs of the most popular codes on sim games?

Based on what I think I've gotten out of that post, and I'll grant myself that it's late and most of my students are complete beginners so bear with me, I think we'll start with tweaking the design of your sim game layouts and then editing your sim style to match a more professional web design. If you'd rather approach it differently, please do tell me, I'm shooting in the dark here as to where to start you off.

I forgot to mention this though: I'm really excited to get the chance to try and teach you, it's going to be different from the rest of my lessons

hehe your shot in the dark about covers it i do indeed want to tweak at my coding a bit, make it better. and by the website i meant that i can code a fairly nice, but simple website but that i want to learn how to code a nicer looking, harder to code website XD. --pretends to be german-- and tanks for de compliment it vaz very nice

Yay! I was close! And lol at the German typing!

I guess we'll get started at figuring out what exactly you know. But unlike with my usual level 1 vocab sheet, I'm just going to ask. By the way,as a forewarning, when it comes to advanced webcoding, it may take me a day or two sometimes to get your assignment up because that won't be the average everyday coding I do, so I may need to play with it some to be sure that I am positive about the coding before I try to explain it to you. Which just means that I do know what I'm doing, but I always run through and check codes before I claim that they'll work. mostly because I tend to get going too quickly and drop punctuation and then they don't

So, with my rather long winded explanation, here's your first assignment!

Assignment 1: Starting Out
The whole idea of this assignment is just for me to get a bead on where you are as far as what pieces of coding we don't need to hit. I'm going to assume you know how to change fonts, make simple tables, make somewhat more complex tables, combine rows and columns in tables, use header tags, insert images, and so on. Go into pretty much any of my other student's classrooms and look at the level 1 lesson 1 vocab. You don't have to do it, but do tell me if there is anything there you don't know. (I doubt there is, but just check for me)

Do you know:
how to create a scrolling table box?
how to create an expanding table box?
how to create a scroll without using tables?
how to make a section expand without using tables?
how to code a banner at the top of your page with absolute positioning?
how to code a banner at the top of your page with tables?
how to create the same effect using tables and absolute positioning?

Nav Bars:
Have you ever coded one?
Left side, right side, top, just a bunch of links?
What are some benefits and drawbacks of an i-mapped banner instead of a navbar? (just list two or three for each).

And can you code an Imap?


And finally, just make sure you have a website, I use a www.freewebs.com site, if you already have your own website you are more than welcome to use that as long as each blank page you create is completely free of HTML. Then post me a link here.

This post has been edited by TimeStop on Jul 3 2009, 03:33 PM

great! Uhm, I'm still deciding what I want your first big assignment to be, and I've got to pack to go visit my dad, so I'll have it for you by sunday at the latest

ok XD im usually not on on saturday alot anyways . . .

Good, I don't have to feel guilty then

hehe just a warning im gonna give you: i have tons of free time so i will always be done assignments really quick XD

not a problem, I'll be at camp from the 12th till the end of the month, so I'll put up assignments when I'm bored in lecture

lol i gave up on camp a lo-ong time ago XD

lol! It's debate camp, if I plan to be competitive this year I have to go. And I will be competitive

Anyway, I went and looked at colleges today, so I promise I'll try and get a page made for you tomorrow. Sorry about that. I usually don't take this long to make assignments.

i can imagine how hard it is to be so busy and remember little old me XD dont worry i dont care . . . i have plenty of stuff to do

Alright, here's a pretty simplistic website with a vertical left nav bar. The nav bar image is UGLY and exists only to outline where the nav bar IS, since it's really just a table cell. The banner image is rather attractive though. Basic idea is, do your best to copy this website, using tables instead of absolute position (like span codes). It shouldn't take you more than about 45 minutes, so time yourself and stop if you go more than 15minutes over time. The links aren't colored or anything because I'm assuming you know how to do that as this point.

Due Date: 3 days from today, whatever that may be.

The link: http://www.freewebs.com/time__stop/Layouts...arlyPerfect.htm

Important Info:
Background pattern: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/pet...0722/squid1.jpg
Table background pattern: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/pet...722/squid1b.jpg
Link I used for the nav bar links: http://z3.invisionfree.com/Uniquity_Academ...E=02&f=58&t=231
nav bar image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/pet...arlyperfect.gif (194x300)
Banner: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/pet...ndByMeSigB3.jpg
Main writing area: 600px wide
15px between writing and nav bar
35 px between bottom of writing and start of credits
Squidfingers = www.squidfingers.com
Bar Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/pet.../Rdnckhead1.jpg (400x40)
any editted font sizes are either 14 or 1
table border is 4 px, hex 13577b
the red font is C40000


If there is any important info I left out, let me know! Best of luck!

ok . . . it took me around a half hour to do this XD in the beginning the pretty image on the top wouldn't go in the border . . . so that took 5ish minutes to figure out. the rest was easy, and im assuming the nav-links are supposed to be out of place, because yours are also. for me, it was very simple to code, basic knowledge XD anyways [here] is the copied webpage XD