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WEEK 1
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| ## WEEK 1 | |
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| #### WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR | |
| HTML | |
| - Basic html structure | |
| - What goes inside `<head>` [Gist](https://gist.github.com/exarcheia-web/6152183) | |
| - Which different tags to use for `<body>` content [Gist](https://gist.github.com/exarcheia-web/6152390) | |
| CSS | |
| - Types of selectors [Quirksmode](http://quirksmode.org/css/selectors/), [Nettuts](http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/the-30-css-selectors-you-must-memorize/) | |
| - The "display" property [css-tricks](http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/d/display/) | |
| - The "position" property [css-tricks](http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/position/) | |
| - How to reset the browser styles [normalize.css](https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/blob/master/normalize.css) | |
| - How to set up a grid and layout a page [learnlayout](http://learnlayout.com/), [designshack](http://designshack.net/articles/css/whats-the-deal-with-display-inline-block/), [vanseodesign](http://www.vanseodesign.com/css/inline-blocks/), [css-tricks](http://css-tricks.com/fighting-the-space-between-inline-block-elements/) | |
| - How to centre a block-level element | |
| - How to replace text with images [css-tricks](http://css-tricks.com/examples/ImageReplacement/) | |
| - How to use icon fonts [icomoon](http://icomoon.io/) [css-tricks](http://css-tricks.com/flat-icons-icon-fonts/) | |
| - How to make a site 'stretchy' using the "max-width" property | |
| - How to use media queries to make a site responsive [wdw](http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/responsive-design-with-css3-media-queries) | |
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| #### WHAT WE STILL NEED TO LEARN | |
| - How to use graphics from others | |
| - How to make menus with submenus [Gist](https://gist.github.com/exarcheia-web/7102496) | |
| - How to set favicons [Jonathan Neal](http://www.jonathantneal.com/blog/understand-the-favicon/) | |
| - Learn new grid and layout techniques [Don't overthink it](https://gist.github.com/exarcheia-web/7102151), [sitepoint](http://www.sitepoint.com/give-floats-the-flick-in-css-layouts/) | |
| - How to build more than one page and plan a whole site [Brad Frost](http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/) | |
| - What to name our classes and manage our code - (DRY & reusable!) [Harry Roberts](http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head-round-bem-syntax/) | |
| - Practise media queries more [Brad Frost](http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/post/7-habits-of-highly-effective-media-queries/) | |
| - How to 'polyfill' | |
| - How to 'preprocess' | |
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| #### HOW WE WILL APPROACH THE CLASS | |
| Each week: | |
| 1. One technique / principle | |
| 2. One example | |
| 3. One tool |
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