Building upon the limited selection of HTML tags from the first assignment, we can now use:

• Page Properties
• Ordered or unordered lists
• Font tag (with colours, sizes, etc)
• Any special character I want (unicode that is)
• Any XHTML compliant attributes we possibly can for the tags we have (for the most part)

So, lots more  , but now we get to use different fonts and colours for them. What I can't seem to find is a way to set more than 1 background colour. I did find out that Box drawings don't look great in Dreamweaver, but show up fine in a web browser.

Unicode references I used for this assignment are:

• http://www.unicode.org/charts/
• http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php

For this assignment, my research will include:

• MDIA1206 Unit 2 course material
• Finding web design sites for inspiration
• Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
• MDIA1206 Appendices and reference material
• Unicode references

Tools I'll be using are:

• Dreamweaver (for coding)
• Fireworks (for prototyping the layout)
• Subversion (learning this for version control)
• Browsershots (to test in different browsers)
• Firefox (for HTML compliance testing and debugging)
• Gridmaker (for creating grids for use in Fireworks/Dreamweaver)

One idea I have for this is to:

• Create a prototype site in Fireworks
• The top layer should be pure white at 66% or so opacity
• Save a flattened .png file and use as a background for Dreamweaver
• Once the site is done, remove the background

Remember that Firefox has the Web Developer and Firebug add on for testing web sites. In addition, www.browsershots.org can test your web site under several web browsers.