N241 - Web Design
Margaret Lion
Stair - Lab 11 - Cascading Style Sheets
April 11, 2000

State the Problem:
	Must create two html documents that read from the same .css document
that works on the ds9 server (and hence the rest of the WWW).

Tools:
	Reference Materials:
	*  Niederst
	*  "HTML 4 Dummies"
	*  Castro, "HTML for World Wide Web"
	*  Materials downloaded from class website
	*  Class videoes

	Hardware:
	*  IBM compatible computer
	*  Paper
	*  Pen and/or pencil
	*  Floppy disk

	Software:
	*  Notepad
	*  Netscape & MIE
	*  FTP

	Other:
	*  Websites that contain free graphics of many varied natures.

Algorithm:
	*  First, start STAIR for lab.
	*  Second decide on content of the two HTML documents. I like
	   nice content, i.e., something informative and/or entertaining.
	*  Figure out what each required item for the lab is.
	*  Figure out how to make the style sheets and where to put them.
	*  Decide on colors, fonts, backgrounds, etc. 
	*  Download images from freebie websites if necessary.
	*  Mark-up on paper what the site will look like.
	*  Tear that up and do it again.
	*  Write CSS poem
	*  Type poem into HTML skeleton
	*  Make master style sheet
	*  Put codes in pages.
	*  Make sure codes work.
	*  Test pages with browser.
	*  Load pages to ds9 server.
	*  Create link for image map page on Index.html page.
	*  Finish STAIR.
	*  Tell Leanne where the image map and STAIR are on my index page.

Implement:
	*  Made my STAIR.
	*  Figured out assignment (or rather, tried to). Looked tough. I was right.
	*  Selected background images and graphics from web.
	*  Tested images, saved the ones I liked.
	*  Finished writing poem.
	*  Cut poem in two parts and put them into Html skeleton.
	*  Made my master style CSS sheet.
	*  Tried to get poem parts to work with CSS sheet. Refined code again, and
	   again, and again.
	*  Finally got CSS to work.
	*  Tried to figure-out the rest of the assingment. Didn't understand the questions.
	*  Called friends in town who made webpages, hoping they could explain this to me -
	   none of them were home. 
	*  Began to cry as I saw my beautiful A sink into oblivion because the CSS project
	   was either never going to get done, would be turned in very late, or would not
	   meet all the grading assignments because I didn't understand them.
	*  Ah ha! A brilliant idea hit me - I would drive to the lab and pray, pray, pray
	   that Leanne and Tedra were working.
	*  Called my husband, told him I would be late.
	*  Loaded up car, got gas, and went to Indy!
	*  Figured-out assignment and why I didn't understand it with Leanne explaining the
	   instructions to me. 
	*  Finished CSS sheets in lab.
	*  Made corrections to my N241 Work page.
	*  Finished Stair Refinement.
	*  Uploaded pages to website.
	*  Tested them.
	*  Emailed good news and thanks to Leanne, Tedra, and copied to Andy so he would know
	   how good they were.

Refinement:
	*  Next time I will make sure I totally understand the project before I try to do it.
	   I would have saved myself a lot of agony had I been able to carefully formulate
	   my questions and then email them to Leanne. Then again, maybe not. Sometimes I need
	   the information given to via oral and hands-on guiding instruction. 
	*  Even though this caused me much grief, I actually like CSS. I'm planning on using
	   one for my final project.