Assignment 2 Solution

The goals of this assignment are to exercise your CSS skills and to give you practice at making a coded page match a set of provided mocks, which is a common task for a web developer.

Here, you are provided with an un-styled `index.html` file, an empty `style.css` file, and a set of mocks (actually screenshots/captures) in the `mocks/` directory.  Your task is to fill out `style.css` so that your rendered `index.html` page matches the mocks as closely as possible.

A few important things to note about the design that may not be clear in the static mocks:

* The Google Fonts stylesheet for the font you should use (Roboto) is included in the HTML.

* The layout is responsive, in that columns are added and removed as the size of the browser viewport changes.  There should be a maximum of 3 columns.

* The location of the button to add a "twit" does not change relative to the viewport, even as the page is scrolled.

* The "active" navbar link (i.e. the link corresponding to the page currently being viewed) is highlighted with a small line underneath.

* There are several hover interactions on the page:

   All links, including the navbar links and the name associated with each "twit" are highlighted in a blue-ish color when they're hovered over.  The search magnifying glass button has the same hover effect.

   The button to add a "twit" is highlighted in blue and grows slightly on hover.

* The background of the search box changes when the box has focus.

Again, your goal is to match the mocks as closely as possible.  I'll show some tools in class that will help you do this.  Don't worry, however, if you don't get things like padding, margins, etc. exactly right.

  Code Blog

Add an entry to your Code Blog reflecting on your experience with this assignment.  Here are some questions you could answer (though these aren't the only ones):

   What was challenging about the assignment, and what specific kinds of problems did you have.  How did you solve those problems?

   What did you learn from the assignment?  Were there any special insights you had?  What did you find that you already knew?

   What kinds of resources were helpful for completing the assignment?  Specific websites?  Lectures?  The class Piazza forum?  The TAs?  How did you use each of these resources?

   What are one or two things you had to Google to complete the assignment?

  Submission

As always, we'll be using GitHub Classroom for this assignment, and you will submit your assignment via GitHub.  Just make sure your completed files are committed and pushed by the assignment's deadline to the master branch of the GitHub repo that was created for you by GitHub Classroom.  A good way to check whether your files are safely submitted is to look at the master branch your assignment repo on the github.com website (i.e. https://github.com/osu-cs290-sp19/assignment-2-YourGitHubUsername/). If your changes show up there, you can consider your files submitted.

In addition to submitting your assignment via GitHub, you must submit the URL to your code blog entry (e.g. http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~YOUR_ONID_ID/cs290/blog.html) via Canvas by the due date specified above.

  Grading criteria

This assignment will be graded by inspecting the `index.html` page rendered using your `style.css` file and by comparing your CSS code in `style.css` to the master CSS code that was used to generate the mocks.  It is important to note that many style effects can be achieved in different ways using CSS, so we will mainly be checking your CSS to see the specific values (color, size, etc.) you used for various properties and to judge the quality of your CSS code.

Only changes to `style.css` will be considered when grading this assignment.  Any changes you make to `index.html` will be ignored.

The assignment is worth 100 points total:

* Color: 15 points
   15 points: colors for all elements match the mocks

* Text: 15 points
   5 points: font faces for all parts of the page (approximately) match the mocks
   5 points: text alignment and indentation matches the mocks
   5 points: all text sizes and weights match the mocks

* Layout: 25 points
   10 points: sizes of major components (header, nav, "twits", buttons, etc.) (approximately) match the mocks
   10 points: box sizes (margins, padding, borders) (approximately) matches the mocks
   5 points: relative locations of components (buttons, "twits", nav links, etc.) (approximately) matches the mocks

* Details: 35 points
   10 points: grid of "twits" properly displays in columns, and the number of columns decreases as the viewport shrinks
   5 points: hover effects for nav bar match the mocks and the description above
   5 points: static appearance (excluding interaction) of the "add twit" button matches the mocks
   5 points: hover effects for the "add twit" button match the mocks and the description above
   5 points: search box background changes when it has focus
   5 points: "active" navbar link is highlighted with a line underneath.

* Code style: 10 points
   5 points: white space and new lines are used appropriately for CSS readability
   5 points: CSS selectors maintain low complexity (i.e. they're only as specific as they need to be)

In addition to your programming assignment grade, you will receive a pass/fail grade for your code blog entry, included in the code blog portion of your grade.