IT 710 - WEEK 12
“Readability”, “Legibility” and “Page Text as a Graphic” are discussed on pages 247-248 of our Non-Designer’s Web Book.
When putting images or text on a page, think about your color combinations. If the background is green and the text is red… what an eye strain! OUCH!
Here is a video clip about Typography: http://busybsdesign.com/flash/Typography.swf
Let’s Break some rules and have some fun!
As shown in the example at: http://animatingeducation.com/fonts.php, not all computers have all the same fonts.
- Create an Image of this text in any Font, Color, Size and Shape you want:
“HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” - Save your image as a .jpeg, .jpg .png or .gif and put the image in a new web page of your web site.
| HAPPY HOLIDAY TEXT IMAGE GOES HERE! |
A HOLIDAY IMAGE GOES HERE |
- Save your page as holiday.html using the full path to your page. Such as:
http://yoursite.com/holiday.html - Find a Holiday image or use the one linked below and add it UNDER or BEHIND the Text Image you created.
Pumpkin Image: http://animatingeducation.com/images/Jack_O_Lantern_3.png
- In the <title> area of the head code, create the Document Title
<title>Happy Holidays!</title> - Upload the new page to your server and post the link to the week 12 discussion area.