29 April 2015

TL;DR

You have nothing due on May 6.

Deadline Shuffle

You have until noon on Friday to re-work your data driven stories that were due today. That isn’t an arbitrary deadline, that’s when I know I plan to sit down and grade them.

You then get to take one last pass at each story, to fix typos and layout issues. Those last chance revisions are all due (on both stories) on May 12, which is our last class.

HTML and CSS

Run your story through an HTML validator. Spend some time cleaning up the HTML add alt attributes to your images (hint: the existing attributes probably include src and title – use those as a template for a new attribute called alt.) If there’s something that’s been kind of frustrating you about your page layout, let me know and I can help you clean it up.

Try also running your HTML through a tidier which will fix all your indentation and might help you flag stray closing div tags (</div>) that are cracking up your layout.

Some tips, including things I didn’t realize until I stopped yammering at you, are now on a lovely HTML and CSS post. Work with what’s there or send me a note describing your particular problem, but let’s get all our citations styled as citations, and our page layouts looking clean.





CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

© Spring 2015 Amanda Hickman