Week 9: jQuery Plugins and Best Practices

The Plan

• Work time for a bit
• jQuery and functions review
• What are plugins and when to use them?
• Example with Fartscroll (lolz)
• Another example with jQuery UI Datepicker
• Select a plugin from Unheap to use

Homework

• Submit any assignments you want feedback on by November 27

Week 8: jQuery!

The Plan

• Have some work time
• Quick variables/functions review
• What is jQuery? Selectors and chaining
• Make a button to change styles, add some logic
• Make a name alert() function
• Make some buttons and hover to change the CSS/fade in and out

Homework

• Start working on final project, and/or catch up on past assignments!

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Week 6: MAMP + Assigment 3

The Plan

• Look at links
• Set up MAMP
• Go over Assignment 3, start it together
• Work time

Homework

To do

• Select a site for Assignment 3 and create the file structure
• Email a paragraph about your final project

Readings

TBD..

Week 5: Work time + Grids

The Plan

• Work time til’ 11:30
• Try a few in the design (download files)
• Random demo/Q&A time

Homework

Todos

• Email me a zip of Assignment 1 if you haven’t already
• Keep working on Assignment 2
• Figure something out and explain it to the class next week
• Download MAMP

Readings

• Mobile First Responsive Web Design, Brad Frost
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries, Brad Frost
• Uncle Sam Wants You to Optimize Your Content for Mobile, Karen McGrane

Week 3: Naming things is hard

The Plan

• Show off links, dissect a site or two, discuss readings
• Q&A time for Assignment 1, demo any questions
• Why naming things is so hard, intro to semantics
• Write the HTML for a profile page together, content out
• Add some basic styles
• Work/misc demo time

Homework

To do

• Start Assignment 2
• Write a blog post about something you figured out – example post here (bonus points if you write it in Markdown).

Readings

• Death to Bullshit – Brad Frost
• Specifics on CSS Specificity – CSS-Tricks