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Professor K Explains
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I’m Ashley Kolodziej, better known as Professor K. I am an interactive creative director by day, and design and web development lecturer at Boston University by night, and I am so excited to learn with you! We’re going to be learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Adobe Creative Cloud applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign together. You’ll also get insight into my personal workflow as a frontend developer, tricks for handling web design challenges such as accessibility like a pro, and practice improving your problem solving skills with code alongs.
Believe it or not, I studied fine art in college and learned everything I know on the job. I want you to know if I can do it, you certainly can too. Take a chance. Let’s give it a try together. Watch these videos, and then take these techniques and try to make something on your own. Before you know it, you may find yourself as passionate about web design and development as I am. Let’s do this! 💪
Believe it or not, I studied fine art in college and learned everything I know on the job. I want you to know if I can do it, you certainly can too. Take a chance. Let’s give it a try together. Watch these videos, and then take these techniques and try to make something on your own. Before you know it, you may find yourself as passionate about web design and development as I am. Let’s do this! 💪
Use the web inspector to learn which HTML layout tags a website uses and why
Take your first steps in learning the web inspector by tearing down a website you already know and learning how it works! Today, we'll focus on learning what four new HTML tags for layout are for - nav, article, section, and aside - and then using the web inspector to tear down a Boston University website and explain why each tag is used where. You'll learn the basics of how to open the web inspector, how to search for an HTML element using the web inspector, how to click and navigate through code in the inspector, and what the differences are between nav, article, section, and aside. After this video, you'll be prepared to start tearing down the HTML structure of websites you use every day, and beginning to see how they work!
Chapters in this video:
[00:00] Introduction
[00:34] How layout tags relate to what we've learned so far
[01:04] The nav (navigation) tag
[01:11] The article tag
[02:02] The section tag
[02:16] The aside tag
[03:00] Layout tags in action: Breaking down a news website's structure
[03:41] Open Inspect Element to see how navigation is marked up
[04:22] How to find what HTML is connected to what elements in the web inspector
[05:12] Why does the publications element use the nav HTML tag?
[05:47] Why do I need an unordered list if I already have a nav tag?
[06:10] Can I use multiple nav tags in HTML?
[06:42] Breaking down the main content area
[07:34] Breaking down the article
[07:49] Breaking down the related sections
[08:18] How to search code using the web inspector
[08:54] Breaking down the aside tag
[09:31] Conclusion
Chapters in this video:
[00:00] Introduction
[00:34] How layout tags relate to what we've learned so far
[01:04] The nav (navigation) tag
[01:11] The article tag
[02:02] The section tag
[02:16] The aside tag
[03:00] Layout tags in action: Breaking down a news website's structure
[03:41] Open Inspect Element to see how navigation is marked up
[04:22] How to find what HTML is connected to what elements in the web inspector
[05:12] Why does the publications element use the nav HTML tag?
[05:47] Why do I need an unordered list if I already have a nav tag?
[06:10] Can I use multiple nav tags in HTML?
[06:42] Breaking down the main content area
[07:34] Breaking down the article
[07:49] Breaking down the related sections
[08:18] How to search code using the web inspector
[08:54] Breaking down the aside tag
[09:31] Conclusion
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Awesome, Thank you, Professor.
You're awesome!!
This is a really GREAT video! One of the most thorough tutorials on this subject I've seen. Beyond helpful - THANK YOU!!!
I'm so relieved I caught your tutorial! For years I'd been feeling inadequate, thinking I must be doing something wrong that the 'first pass' was always so riddled with H&J violations. Now I see that fixing them is PART of the craft. Whaaat a relief! So do you feel (pun unintended) justified in asking for a little edit if you encounter stubborn H&Js?
Wow, thank you so much. Just working through a document and the rivers were driving me bonkers. I went through several tutorials but this one really fixed it perfectly. The document looks absolutely amazing. Thank you!!!
helped , thankyou :)
😀You save my night !! Merci...
Well, that was a big help, thanks!
Thank you!
I appreciate the useful information. Also, cute hair!
To anyone having trouble with video quality: I suggest watching the video in 1080p. Maybe on a TV while you're on your computer following along. Also this video was super helpful, thanks!
Excellent top quality teaching. 🎉
thanks for sharing your knowledge
hi thanks for the tutorial.. can you also create a tutorial for installing wordpress using lando, docker and composer? thanks
Thanks so much!
Hey, would you have any recommendations for steps prior to publishing a plugin ? For instance, it's saying that the plugin zip file is over 50mb but I'm not sure which node modules to remove
Thank you very much, Prof! This was really helpful!
A great video. I generally have used <article> inside my <section> elements and not the other way around. Would you say both are valid usages?
Wow! This is so enlightening! I was doing variation in a very limited way. Thank you so much!
Very nice tutorial, but... when you add or delete text in a correction round all the manual tracking within the paragraph has to be done over (it will basically be a mess that you will have to reset first). It's nice to highlight the H&J violations in the Preferences but it's not that the yellow is visible in printouts. It's just under the hood, right? I just stick to a slightly other H&J setting: Word Spacing: 90% 100% 110%. Letter Spacing: -3% 0% +3%. and Glyph Scaling: 97% 100% 103%. And that is just fine for 95% of all text. Way faster. As a bonus I can add discretionary hyphens here and there. That's it.
Much needed information. Thank you so much for this! 🙌🏾
Short and meaning
Wow short and awesome,easy to understand
Been seeing some debate on the aside tag. Some say it's suitable for a sidebar, others say not. Any opinions?
I’d say it depends on the content of the sidebar. If it’s something that could be removed without affecting the meaning of the content around it, but it’s still related, that’s perfect for aside. It’s easiest for me to think of it in magazine layout terms - there’s the main article, but then there’s often some related content. That’s perfect for an aside. So let’s say you have an article on how to build a table, and the sidebar contains general tips and tricks for woodworkers. I would use an aside for that. However, if the sidebar contains links to other pages on the side, like a navigation, or a table of contents with links to headings in the article, I would use nav instead. Sometimes sidebars have mixed information, and in that case, it might be a combination of section, nav, and aside for me. Really depends on the specific content - there’s no one “right” answer in my opinion here.
Thanks! This cleared up the purpose of the aside tag for me. In my case just a nav would then work better for a sidebar on my project.
Hey professor. Why haven't you post any video in the last 2 years?
I’ve been busy teaching! I work a full time job and teach two classes in the evening now, so it’s been a while since I have been able to record anything new. I also had a pipe burst in my house in my home office where I recorded these, so my entire summer (which is usually when I have time to do this sort of thing) was spent getting the floor rebuilt. Luckily I didn’t lose any of my tech, though. This also is a bit of a back burner project for me since I don’t get paid for it - I don’t have enough subscribers to be paid for the ads UA-cam shows. I’ve been wondering if it would make sense for me to move my videos to a less ad-driven platform if I’m not getting paid anyway. Thank you for asking, though! This channel is still on my mind and every time someone comments, I still see it and it still brightens my day. I’ll try to post some sort of update soon just about my normal life. I even got my master’s degree last year! It’s been a long journey and I do want to get back to sharing knowledge here again eventually. 😁
this is a great series.
Cool. I've been learning about accessibility with regard to websites but I didn't know there were recommendations out there for longform copy too.
Thanks for your tutorial, step by step is so easy to comprehend.👍
Adobe thought of the most deranged and dumb way to implement layers and artboards to a program, went and did it. Thanks for your vid, really helpful!
this is what ive looking forrrr, thank you so much for the tutorial lovely
❤️
Thank you for this video, It actually helped me.
Excellent
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Hello, I'm getting "Warning: could not find a .wp-env.json configuration file and could not determine if '/home/shams/wordpress/first-block' is a WordPress installation, a plugin, or a theme" Can you help?
Hey - I’m sorry, I haven’t been working in the WordPress space in about a year (switched jobs), so it’s possible this tutorial has gone out of date. Just as some general debugging steps, I would triple check that you’re in the right folder in terminal, and that folder contains the wp-env file and has the right extension. If that doesn’t work, do you have a local WordPress meetup you could stop by? They would be a great resource for a question like this and be able to troubleshoot in a more hands-on way!
Short but deep meaning. I searched the meaning of those tags and I understood simply with shorts .. thanks for uploading such a great videos.
Nicely explained! While explaining the alternative solution, it is important to discuss the negative effects of them, Thanks for a detailed explanation. 🍮
how can i install plugins in an existing or new wordpress installation?
thanks for sharing, this is what we needed💜
Very helpful! You defined everything first and then showed the technical end that made following along easy. Much appreciated!
thanks for this! other people havent really talked about how to use artboards and layers together to organise things. i am used to figma and photoshop which treats these two very differently and i kept getting sooo annoyed at illustrator and low key still do because i hate how it treats layers lol. everything keeps getting mushed together!
Love this, Proessor K!
Hi, thank you for this video I really appreciated it. Do you recommend in general to work with all the screen/device version all in one file (like in this video) or to make a XD file for every screen/device. I'm working on a multi-platform app that goes on Smartphone, tablet, and web, so I'm struggling to find the best way of working.
This is a great question! I would work with all screens in one file. It makes for a large file, but it means that you can take advantage of the prototyping functionality to get a better sense of the user flow as you complete design. If it gets to be unweildly or you’re working with a larger design team, you could split it up by major features or general platform - such as app and web.
Yeah maybe I’ll stick to that, smartphone and tablet (that have the same UI) on one file and pc version (that have a slightly different UI) on another file. THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Thanks for the video. There are some cases where the client doesn't allow a discretionary hypen. Do you suggest we just increase the tracking even though it might look a little obvious?
Yeah, in that case there’s not a lot else you can do, and it’s better to preserve readability than try and squish everything. Another option might be to left align if they’re open to it.
@@ProfessorKExplains thank you for the reply
your content is so cool!!
Thanks for you video. I think doing micromanagement and overrides on single lines may cause some problems if the text alters. Isn't it so?
This is soo much useful than touvthink
This was a really helpful tutoorial, and exactly what i needed. In other ones authors just showed how to create artboards but they didn't explain how to manage layers and objects in them. Big thank you!
Sry. Professor. You can't follow the video because the options settings are way too small and thus unreadable.
Bro trying to watch youtube tutorials on a flip phone screen 😂
You covered everything the other videos I watched did not. The "justify all lines except for the last line" corrected 95% of my issues. Tracking took care of the rest. Thanks again for making this video!!