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Bioinformatics Programming. EE, NCKU Tien-Hao Chang (Darby Chang). Common flaws in HTML. Tags and attributes are lowercase <H1> <A HREF="#"> No layout tags <center> <font color="red"> use CSS instead Avoid inline CSS (‘style’ attribute) <p style="color: red;">. Tables are dead.
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Bioinformatics Programming EE, NCKU Tien-Hao Chang (Darby Chang)
Common flaws in HTML • Tags and attributes are lowercase • <H1> <A HREF="#"> • No layout tags • <center> <font color="red"> • use CSS instead • Avoid inline CSS (‘style’ attribute) • <p style="color: red;">
Tables are dead • The Web Standards Project’s (WaSP) Browser Upgrade Initiative (BUI), has spurred many a designer to move towards more standards compliant web design, using CSS rather than tables for layout to save user bandwidth while enhancing underlying semantics, accessibility, and reach • Cons • complexity of documents, difficult to maintain • less flexibility • Semantically speaking, the table tag is meant for listing tabular data • it is not optimized to build structure
Several designers have taken Jeffrey Zeldman’s lead in posting tutorials that have helped us get over the initial hump of table-less design • http://www.alistapart.com/articles/journey/ • http://www.glish.com/css/ • http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/ • http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/index.html • http://www.glish.com/css/hacks.asp • http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html • References • http://www.alistapart.com/articles/practicalcss/ • http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/08/from-table-hell-to-div-hell/
Validation • HTML is, though its simplicity, still a language • indent it • W3C Validation Service • http://validator.w3.org/ • http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Javascript • A magic language • http://screenr.com/Ye7 • Powerful to deal with DOM objects • what is DOM objects? • select them with Javascript (jQuery) • change something about the selected objects • All about events • Various add-ons/extensions • web developer • firebug • http://mashable.com/2010/02/24/developer-chrome-extensions/
Candies • Various read-to-use ‘packages’ • http://speckyboy.com/2010/03/01/25-amazing-and-fresh-jquery-plugins/ • Google Javascript API • http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/ajax/documentation/ • Google Visualization API • motion chart • Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen • there is no the best visualization technique, only the most appropriate technique • YUI • http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ • tabview as an example • There are many (maybe too many) alternatives • http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs • http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/18/14-tab-based-inferface-techniques/
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Color • Color in design is very subjective • what evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in someone else • Color theory is a science in itself • something as simple as changing the exact hue or saturation of a color can evoke a completely different feeling • cultural differences mean that something that’s happy and uplifting in one country can be depressing in another • http://speckyboy.com/2010/04/22/understanding-and-the-meaning-of-color-within-design/
Imitation • For example, if you don’t know how to mix colors, just look others • http://www.webdesignbooth.com/colors-in-web-design/ • There are many ‘galleries’ for inspiration • http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/16-best-web-design-galleries-for-inspiration/ • http://www.webcreme.com/ • View source code • Trace using tools such as firebug
Points to a good presentation • Motivation • why your work (topic/system) is important • Contribution • fit the motivation and/or achieve better performance • Methodology • clearness
Points to a good final project • A good presentation • convince both the teacher and the students • A good work, of course • practicability • user interface • A good report • document your presentation (more text) and your work (screenshot with explanations) • include anything worthy extra credit • Reasonably evaluate other works
Grade The exercises contribute around 50% to your final grades. A missing exercise reduces 3–5 points.