Peer assessment task 1 - feedback available

Now that the peer assessment task 1 is closed:

• I have (re)opened the feedback system for you to receive comments on your work. People's views will differ, that is the point of doing this exercise! Consider the opinions and suggestions you have been offered and start work on responding to the feedback.

• You do not need to redo the design document. Simply write a single new document of your responses and post it at the middle link of your group's splash page.

...then start work on assignment 2 taking into account people's view of your proposal! :-)

Now that the peer assessment system is closed, marks for these first assignments will be posted ASAP.

FINAL reminder - peer assessment closes tonight

The peer assessment system closes at 23:00:00 tonight.
This is a compulsory hurdle requirement for all students enrolled in the unit.
Numerous students are yet to complete the task: please do so today!

Font sizes (including "em")

The examples given for font size in the lecture on CSS used a measurement of a pt - a point. As discussed in the lecture on Typography, these are absolute units. Others include:

• in: inches — 1 inch = 2.54 cm.
• cm: centimeters
• mm: millimeters
• pt: points — the points used by CSS 2.1 are equal to 1/72nd of an inch.
• pc: picas — 1 pica is equal to 12 points.

We can use measurements such as these in our style sheets like (for example), this:

h1 { margin: 0.5in }      /* inches  */
h2 { line-height: 3cm }   /* centimeters */
h3 { word-spacing: 4mm }  /* millimeters */
h4 { font-size: 12pt }    /* points */
h4 { font-size: 1pc }     /* picas */

We can also specify relative units in style sheets. Relative units specify a length relative to another length property. Style sheets that use relative units will more easily scale from one medium to another (e.g., from a computer display to a laser printer).

Relative units include:

• em: the 'font-size' of the relevant font
• ex: the 'x-height' of the relevant font (the height of an 'x' character in the font)
  
• px: pixels, relative to the viewing device

We might use these as follows:

/* em
* this margin will be half the size of the h1 font
*/
h1 { margin: 0.5em }

/* ex
* this margin will be the size of the h1 font x height
*/
h1 { margin: 1ex }

/* px
* the paragraph font will be 12 pixels high
*/
p  { font-size: 12px }

These notes are sourced from http://www.w3.org/

Peer Assessment Task 1 - details

Just to clarify the situation regarding peer assessment submission.

As it indicates clearly on the login page, you can only submit this task once. However, if you really want to, you can login to the system multiple times as long as you don't click submit. The system will not save your entries so it is best to keep them recorded in a text file if you are intending to login multiple times. Then, before you click submit, just paste your feedback from the file into the form.

Why is the page like this? Because it has been designed as an assessment/hurdle task. You login once, finish the task and submit. I do not encourage you to complete the task in multiple sessions even though this is possible.

Peer Assessment Task 1 Opens!

Peer assessment task 1 is open from 10am this coming Monday morning. Details and the login link are online at:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/courses/FIT3084/peerAssessLogin.html

You have until this coming Friday to complete this compulsory hurdle requirement for the unit. The task needs to be completed individually. It is not a group exercise!

Dilbert on web design

An amusing comic of relevance to the current course...
http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2010-04-01/?Page=1

Provided by one of your fellow students. Thanks!