Week 6: New Location

We will be meeting at Ross House in Alameda. It is located at 45 Ross Rd. We will try to get the snacks up by 9:15 and then start the class at 9:30.

MYT 2007: Week 2

Please create an account at del.icio.us (if you don't already have one), a social bookmarking service. Once you've done so, please grab the delicious Firefox extension. Now, you're able to go to any page and directly bookmark it to your delicious page!

First task
Please bookmark the Gracepoint website and your ministry website (to your delicious account, of course), if there is one... sorry Praxis. Hopefully, you guys know the urls for those two websites by now. Also, play around with the tagging component on delicious.

Second task
Please bookmark the following sites:

• HTMLDog's Intermediate CSS Guide
• Box model
• CSS Layouts
• CSS Shorthand guide
• Clearfix (clearing float containers)

After you've done all that, please visit the first link and read some of those tutorials.

Why delicious
Having an account online is especially useful if you use more than one computer (eg, a workstation and a home computer, or if you're using someone else's laptop at class). However, even if you only use one computer, this is still beneficial. For instance, when you need to test out different browsers (and as a web jock, I guarantee that you will experience this) or if you're at a friend's house and would like to show him/her something from your bookmarks.

Firefox & Extensions

For those who haven't done so already (eg, those who weren't here last week), please install the latest build of Firefox and these extensions:

• Web Developer
  
• Firebug
  

MYT 2007: Week 1 HW

Part 1

Ahoy, web jock grasshoppers! Since you are expert view sourcers and professional firebug inspectors, there is a secret way to find this week's homework. The homework is as follows:

1. Create an account at www.blogger.com
2. After you've created one, post the url of your blog (eg, http://webjocks.blogger.com) to the comment section of this very post
3. In your "About Me" section, make sure to put a link back to our Gracepoint website (similar to what we've done here)
4. Play around with blogger!
5. Failure to do so will result in an F in the course. =D

That's it for part 1!

Part 2

Download an RSS reader, or use Google Reader.
Add the following links to your reader:

• Smashing Magazine: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmashingMagazine
• Design Meltdown: http://feeds.feedburner.com/designmeltdown/uecD
• Pastor Ed's Notebook: http://feeds.feedburner.com/gracepoint_notebook
  
• Web Jocks (of course): http://feeds.feedburner.com/webjocks
  

I (Abe) personally use Vienna (free, mac-only software) and allow my feeds (~40 different ones) to refresh every six hours. We'll just get started with these four and work our way up. =T

Hopefully, this week's homework isn't too tough!