Messmer High School
Mr. Palmer's Web Page Design class
Unit 9 projects.



Introduction - In unit Nine we will explore techniques for using Cascading Style Sheets. This is a very handy and popular technique for creating attractive web pages and reducing the effort required. In every case you are required to create the given assignment in a MY Documents folder, save it as a web page or style sheet under the My Documents folder, and only then post it on your web site.  You may use any editing tools including Notepad, Arachnophilia or the Mozilla editor.


There are five projects in this unit:


Unit 9, Project 1. Add an internal style sheet to the HEAD section of a page of your choice to show the following effects:

  1. Set the background color to a light gray, rgb values of 200,200,200.
  2. Set a fixed 100x100 pixel background image of your own choosing that stays at the top of the display
  3. Set the text color to Red with transparent background, oblique style and bold.

Unit 9, Project 2.
    1. Find the CSS study materials offered by the W3 Schools website.
    2. Copy the style sheets found at the "See how it works" selection ( http://www.w3schools.com/css/demo_default.htm )under the CSS Demo heading into your own area.
    3. Select at least five of your first quarter projects.
    4. Modify them to include each of the five style sheets using the LINK command.
    5. You do not have to post these results on your Geo-cities account but you must demonstrate the ability to change the style sheet being selected and make it work.
Unit 9, Project 3. Study the style sheets you downloaded in Project 2. Consult the online reference materials for CSS for correct spellings and formats of commands. Create a new style sheet that will carry the following properties:
  1. Paragraphs, tables, list elements and headings will use Times New Roman font if it is available, or Ariel or Sans Serif as backup fonts.
  2. Paragraphs, headings, tables, list elements, and horizontal rulers will use a left margin set at twenty points.
  3. Paragraphs, list elements, table headers and table cells will use a font size equal to eighty-five percent.
  4. Ordered lists will display hebrew numbers
  5. The background color will be set to rgb values of 220, 250, 250.
  6. All headings will be set to a color of green.
  7. All active and unused links wil be set to a color of  red.
  8. All visited links will be set to a color of blue.
  9. When the user hovers the mouse over a link it will turn yellow.
Unit 9, Project 4.
  1. Create a folder on your Geocities website called Style. This will hold style sheetes for use on your website.
  2. Transfer all six of the style sheets you have created so far to this folder.
  3. Select six projects that you halve already uploaded to your Geocities portfolio.
  4. Modify each of them to use one of the style sheets in your style folder.
  5. Use relative addressing in your href commands so that your style sheets can be used from your style folder.
   Unit 9, Project 5.