You have to create a program that generates a random number between 1 and 15. The user has to make as many guesses as they need to get the correct number. To make it easier on the user, the computer will tell them if each guess is higher or lower.
Right its been a while since we looked at scratch, so today’s lesson was a quick bit of revision on variables.
You were asked to create programs to do the following
Answers after the break
A function is what the web site was designed to do. A web site can have many functions, here are a few of them.
Web authoring software has a number of common features to allow you to create pages efficiently.
A hyperlink is a made up of two parts, the anchor which is a piece of text or an image and the link which is either a full URL or a reference relative to the page you are on. They are used on web sites for navigation between connected pages. Hyperlinks are only one way with the destination page being unaware of the page containing the link.
To add a menu to you site you need to use a Spry called “Spry Menu Bar”, this creates an unordered list that makes use of CSS formatting to make it look like buttons. Dreamweaver takes care of all the CSS and leaves you to focus on the content.
In today’s lesson we looked at creating a 3 page website from the beginning.
A few of you wanted to know if there were other ways to add images in Dreamweaver. I found this official video, which at 5 minutes is a little long but covers everything. Read more
The Internet is full of tips and tricks for using Dreamweaver, it can be a little daunting to find the good stuff. Here is a search tip I use on google. Search for the package you are after followed by the word cheat sheet, a cheat sheet is a short (often 2 A4 page) document that crams in a lot of what you need to learn a package. Example Dreamweaver CS3 cheat sheet. However, this gives lots of pages that don’t have what we want. So we need to set the file type we want in this case we want a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file
Dreamweaver CS3 cheat sheet /filetype:pdf
This will bring up a list of sites that have those documents on them, some website are wise to this trick and try and lure your in with false PDF files, so check the start of the link for a [PDF].
Here are a few I found
Although sometimes web sites can be useful too.
We started this topic last week but it has taken me a while to get round to posting about it.
Hyper Text Markup Language is the language of the World Wide Web. It allows information to be transferred across networks using Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
In this section of the course we will be learning how to create web pages.
