CS188

FSC Seminar (Spring)

Website Project (Group)

Group website development: students will work together to design a website for current or future UMB students. Remember that this site will be presented in front of the class, so content should not be too personal or explicit in any capacity.

The students may choose whether or not to host the site live on the internet; static files hosted locally are also acceptable. Students may NOT use drag and drop design sites such as SquareSpace or Wix.

Resources for online markup/coding:

W3Schools

https://www.w3schools.com/

W3Schools includes extensive tutorials about HTML, CSS and Bootstrap (a website style that allows for greater functionality on mobile), and also has an interactive editor built-in to help you practice.

Dash by General Assembly

https://dash.generalassemb.ly/

“Dash is a fun and free online course that teaches you the basics of web development through projects you can do in your browser.”

CSS Zen Garden

http://csszengarden.com/

CSS Zen Garden has a large selection of FREE CSS templates for websites, that you can use in your HTML, to design your website to your liking.

Code Academy

https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/subject/all

Award-winning site dedicated to tutorials of many programming languages, and of course web development.

HTML Color Picker

https://htmlcolorcodes.com/color-picker/

Easy reference/explorer for CSS Hex Colors. Copy and paste hex codes.

TEMPLATED

https://templated.co/

FREE HTML packages that include CSS and JS, easy to implement and good practice for coding HTML with JS and CSS as the elements are already given to you.

HTML5 UP

https://html5up.net/

Another website that has FREE HTML packages.

Start Bootstrap

https://startbootstrap.com/

A website that gives out free Bootstrap themes, all which include bootstrap for improved functionality on mobile.

Additional info from Mike:
If you want to, you have the ability to sign up for an account in the unix lab (link to Glenn Hoffman’s instruction page on how to sign up below), which will grant you access to a directory in which you can host a free website on the cs.umb.edu server. Translation: you can make a website from scratch publicly available.
If you choose to do so, it can give you practice in managing a website directory and sourcing images and stylesheets from your local directories. You will also most likely need a Unix account in the future, as some professors collect assignments from them.
Here is the link to the apply process: https://www.cs.umb.edu/~ghoffman/linux/apply_process.html

 

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