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Pacific Trails Resort Case Study In this chapter’s case study you will use the existing Pacific Trails (Chapter 2) website as a starting point while you create a new version of the website that uses an external style sheet to configure color (see Figure 4.25). You have five tasks in this case study:

  1. Create a new folder for the Pacific Trails Resort website.
  2. Create an external style sheet named pacific.css.
  3. Update the Home page: index.html.
  4. Update the Yurts page: yurts.html.
  5. Update the pacific.css style sheet.

Task 1: Create a folder called ch4pacific to contain your Pacific Trails Resort website files. Copy the index.html and yurts.html files from the Chapter 2 Case Study pacific folder.

Task 2: The External Style Sheet.

Launch a text editor. You will create an external style sheet named pacific.css. A sample wireframe is shown in Figure 4.26 .

Code CSS to configure the following:

  • Global styles for the document (use the body element selector) with background color white (#FFFFFF) and text color dark gray (#666666).
  • Style rules for the header element selector that configure background color (#000033) and text color (#FFFFFF).
  • Styles for the nav element selector that configure sky blue background color (#90C7E3).
  • Styles for the h2 element selector that configure medium blue text color (#3399CC).
  • Styles for the dt element selector that configure dark blue text color (#000033).
  • Styles for a class named resort that configure medium dark blue text color (#5C7FA3).

Save the file as pacific.css in the ch4pacific folder. Check your syntax with the CSS validator at https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/. Correct and retest if necessary.

Task 3: The Home Page. Launch a text editor and open the home page, index.html.

  • Associate the pacific.css external style sheet. Add a <link> element in the head section to associate the web page with the pacific.css external style sheet file.
  • Find the company name (Pacific Trails Resort) in the first paragraph below the h2. Configure a span that contains this text. Assign the span tag to the resort class.
  • Look for the company name (Pacific Trails Resort) directly above the street address. Configure a span that contains this text. Assign the span tag to the resort class.
  • Assign the div that contains the address and phone information to an id named contact. We’ll configure CSS for this id in a future case study.

Save and test your index.html page in a browser. It should be similar to the page shown in Figure 4.27 , and you’ll notice that the styles you configured in the external CSS file are applied!

Task 4: The Yurts Page. Launch a text editor and open the yurts.html file.

  • An example of the new version of the web page is shown in Figure 4.28 .
  • Add a <link> element in the head section to associate the web page with the pacific.css external style sheet file.
  • Save and test your new yurts.html page. It should look similar to the one shown in Figure 4.28 .

Task 5: Update the CSS.

You may notice an empty space between the header area and the navigation area. The empty space is the default bottom margin of the h1 element. The technique to cause the browser to collapse this empty space is to set the margin-bottom property.

In the pacific.css file, add or modify the style for the h1 element selector as follows:

h1 {

margin-bottom: 0;


}

Save the pacific.css file. Launch a browser and test your index.html and yurts.html pages. The gap between the h1 element and the navigation area should be gone. Your home page should display similar to Figure 4.25. Clicking navigation links should render pages with the new styling from pacific.css. This demonstrates how a few lines of CSS can transform webpage presentation effectively.

Paper For Above instruction

The case study presented explores the process of modernizing a website through the implementation of external CSS to enhance visual consistency and maintainability. Beginning with the existing Pacific Trails Resort website, the project involves structuring the website files, creating a dedicated external stylesheet, applying CSS rules for various HTML elements and classes, and testing the updates across relevant pages. This transformation underscores the importance of CSS in web development, allowing for centralized control of styles, simplifying updates, and enabling cohesive design across multiple pages. The step-by-step instructions include setting up a dedicated folder, defining CSS styles for global and specific elements such as headers, navigation bars, and text classes, and updating webpages to link to the stylesheet. Additionally, minor adjustments like removing default spacing via margin settings illustrate how CSS refinements can significantly improve layout aesthetics and user experience. Overall, this case exemplifies best practices in separating content from presentation, making the site easier to manage and adapt to future design changes. It highlights key concepts like external style sheets, CSS selectors, class and ID selectors, and the importance of syntactical validation, providing a practical approach to professional web design and development.

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